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Minnesota's stay-at-home order will be lifted on Monday, allowing retail stores and malls to open with 50% capacity and social distancing plans in place. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced he is signing the "New York State on PAUSE" executive order, a 10-point policy to assure uniform safety for everyone. It includes a new directive that all non-essential businesses statewide must close in-office personnel functions effective at 8PM on Sunday, March 22, and temporarily bans all non-essential gatherings of individuals of any size for any reason. On November 12, Cuomo announced new statewide restrictions which took effect the next day.
In response, the governor's office announced what they called "direct enforcement" of COVID-19 related restrictions in high-risk neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens. The mayor's office proposed closing businesses deemed "non-essential" and on-site dining. In-person schooling would have to shut down in nine ZIP Codes with 14-day positivity rates over 3%, while another eleven ZIP Codes were placed on a "watch list" because their positivity rates were 1–3%. Whether a school will be allowed to reopen will be based on average 14-day infection rate, and phase for its region. A region must be in Phase 4, and have an infection rate of 5 percent or lower over a 14-day average.
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NEW YORK CITY — Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to start a gradual reopening in parts of New York State May 15, he announced Monday. NEW YORK CITY — New York state's new coronavirus stay-at-home order has been extended until the end of May. Four members of the State Assembly—Charles Barron, Kimberly Jean-Pierre, Brian Miller, and Helene Weinstein—have been diagnosed with COVID-19; Miller was treated at the intensive care unit at St. Luke's Hospital in Utica. On March 30, Jim Seward became the first state senator to test positive for the virus; his case was mild and he recovered. On April 3, Cuomo announced that more than 10 million total COVID-19 vaccines were administrated throughout New York state, with 1 in 3 having received at least one dose and 1 in 5 New Yorkers being full vaccinated. On December 22, following concerns over a new SARS-CoV-2 variant from the United Kingdom, Cuomo ordered hospitals across the state to begin testing for the variant.
The order comes after California Gov. Gavin Newsom implemented a similar lockdown on the state’s 40 million residents on Wednesday to prevent the state’s medical system from being overwhelmed. While not enforced by police, the order instructs residents to stay home indefinitely and go outside only for essential jobs, errands, and exercise. This article was amended on 20 March 2020 to clarify that the figure of 90 days applied to the governor’s moratorium on evictions, not to the stay-at-home order. In New York “the violation of any provision of its order constitutes an imminent threat and creates an immediate menace to public health”, the mandate states.
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By August 2020, the city had an official unemployment rate of 16.3%, nearly twice the national rate. A significant percentage of populations in all five boroughs were estimated to be receiving unemployment insurance benefits, with rates ranging from 22% of the workforce in Manhattan to 41% in the Bronx. Officially, the Bronx had an unemployment rate of 17.5% in October, the highest of any county in the state at the time. The city's most badly affected neighborhood was West Farms, Bronx, where 26% of the workforce was unemployed in October 2020, several times higher than in wealthy neighborhoods such as the Upper West Side and Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Typhoon Vongfong was packing maximum sustained winds of 96 mph and gusts of up to 158 mph, according to the latest data from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. The storm, the first typhoon to hit the archipelagic country this year, is expected to make landfall on eastern islands later Thursday. Seth Goldberg has a pizza delivered to his car by a waiter from the Bel Aire Diner, May 13, 2020, before "Dirty Dancing" was shown in the diner's parking lot, in Queens, New York, during the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, 517 patients were in intensive care units with symptoms -- down from 561 patients on Monday. De Blasio called it a "very good day" as he reported all three daily tracking progress indicators moving in the right direction. New Jersey has over 142,000 diagnosed cases of the coronavirus and 9,946 deaths.
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China reported three new locally-transmitted infections of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, raising concerns of a rebound of the epidemic in the country's mainland territories. Once the worst-hit country in Europe, Italy was the first nation in the world to impose a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than 222,000 people in Italy have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and at least 31,106 have died, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Italy's government has approved a $60 billion stimulus package to help businesses and families reeling from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the number of arrests during the protests increased, many people were detained for longer periods, as hundreds were held in close quarters while waiting to see a judge. Subway ridership increased slowly in the early months of 2021 but not enough to reach pre-pandemic levels. On April 20, four City Council members requested that subway service be temporarily suspended, saying that reduced service had resulted in crowding on the subway and that entire cars had been taken over by homeless people. Their request to shut down the subway was initially rejected by the governor's office and criticized by interim New York City Transit President Sarah Feinberg. City officials made efforts to place high-risk homeless persons in hotels serving as emergency shelters. New York City issued new commuter guidelines following the start of the outbreak, asking sick individuals to stay off public transit, and encouraging citizens to avoid densely packed buses, subways, and trains.
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The decree remains in place for urban regions, including the capital, Tokyo, and the large port city of Osaka. Abe said his government will consider lifting the state of emergency for the remaining prefectures next week. Harry Roque, spokesperson for the president of the Philippines, said local officials must ensure that social distancing is observed by families as they seek temporary shelter in evacuation centers.
Members of the police force say it's a combination of factors including the early release of prisoners, bail reforms, body cameras and other forms of public pressure on police officers. Some scholars believe the pandemic has worsened underlying social and economic instability in the city. After some arrests for violations of social distancing protocols turned violent, the city relaxed enforcement. Some non-compliant bars and restaurants, limited to take-out and delivery service during the pandemic, continued allowing customers to dine in or to gather outside bars with drinks.
On June 17, Cuomo announced that New York City is on track to enter Phase 2 of reopening on June 22. On May 26, the Hudson Valley region began Phase 1 of reopening, followed by Long Island on May 27. On May 4, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said that unlike most other New York counties, Erie County was not ready to reopen on May 15 when Governor Cuomo's stay-at-home order is set to expire.
On March 17, as the number of confirmed cases rose to 814 citywide, de Blasio announced that the city was considering a similar shelter-in-place order within the next 48 hours. Across the boroughs of New York City, there were 277 confirmed cases in Manhattan, 248 in Queens, 157 in Brooklyn, 96 in the Bronx, and 36 in Staten Island. Cuomo said that the social distancing measures will be extended in coordination with other states, in which non-essential workers are being told to stay at home. The measures have meant the closure of businesses, schools, and other public venues, including movie and legitimate theaters.
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