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As of January 6, 2023, over one third of New York City neighborhoods had COVID-19 positivity rates in excess of 20% and four out of five neighborhoods exceeded 15%, largely due to the highly infectious XBB.1.5 variant. This particular variant accounted for 80.8% of the city's cases, compared to the projected U.S. prevalence of 61%. [173]
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The government of New York state initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a stay-at-home order in March 2020. As the pandemic progressed in New York state and throughout the rest of the country, the state government, following recommendations issued by the U.S. government regarding state and local government responses, began imposing social distancing measures and workplace hazard ...
Gov. Cuomo said Saturday that New York City should “seriously consider” keeping public schools open even if the positive rate on coronavirus tests citywide hits 3% as expected in coming days ...
A surge in coronavirus cases in several Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods is expanding, leading city health officials to broaden the list of zip codes they’re focusing their efforts on. There ...
An emotional Gov. Cuomo delivered his 111th consecutive daily coronavirus update on Friday, heaping praise on New Yorkers for their handling of the pandemic from the confines of his executive office.
The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. [9] [10] Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia. [1]
Divergent after-school pickup instructions for vaccinated and unvaccinated parents at an elementary school in New York City. Over 1000 colleges in the United States required on-campus students to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 for the 2021–2022 academic year. [328]