{"id":63246,"date":"2020-10-13T02:29:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=63246"},"modified":"2020-10-13T02:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:29:41","slug":"new-york-city-entering-crucial-week-in-coronavirus-fight-mayor-blasio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=63246","title":{"rendered":"New York City entering \u2018crucial\u2019 week in coronavirus fight: Mayor Blasio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Desk report: New York City is entering a \u201ccrucial\u201d week in its fight against the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday, amid a resurgence of the bug in swaths of Brooklyn and Queens.<\/p>\n

The mayor said he hoped the new state-ordered restrictions, enforcement of the rules and neighborhood compliance would help to squash the spike in COVID-19 cases and get the city back to where it was last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith luck, this week will be decisive in all of our favor,\u201d de Blasio said on NY1\u2019s \u201cInside City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of the following week, we might be able to get things back to where we were in September,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Anti-lockdown protests raged last week in some of the designated COVID-19 \u201cred\u201d zones, following Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s decision to close non-essential businesses and restrict the sizes of religious gatherings there in an attempt to curb the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement authorities dished out over $150,000 in penalties over the weekend in the coronavirus hot-spots \u2014 and will continue to enforce the restrictions this week, de Blasio said.<\/p>\n

When asked about why large gatherings in the virus hot-spots were being treated differently than the summer\u2019s anti-racism demonstrations, the mayor only said that \u201cIt\u2019s a different situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later added: \u201cAny large gatherings create a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can not let this resurgence grow into a second wave in New York City,\u201d de Blasio said.
\n– Courtesy: New York Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Desk report: New York City is entering a \u201ccrucial\u201d week in its fight against the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday, amid a resurgence of the bug in swaths of Brooklyn and Queens. The mayor said he hoped the new state-ordered restrictions, enforcement of the rules and neighborhood compliance would help to squash the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[199],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n