New York City To Close Non-Essential Businesses In Areas With COVID-19 Spikes

New York City is rewinding the opening of non-essential businesses in several areas due to COVID-19.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City will be rewinding the opening of non-essential businesses and schools in areas that are struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

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“Today, unfortunately, is not a day for celebration,” Mr. de Blasio said. “Today is a more difficult day.”

De Blasio says zip codes that have a positivity rate of over three percent for COVID-19 in the last week will rollback their reopening.
"The plan is to rewind in these nine zip codes. To rewind, to go back, to address the problem by using the tools that we know work, which is to ensure that non-essential businesses are not open and a variety of activities are not happening.

“We’re obviously going to watch carefully to see if people moving around from community to community is having an effect,” he continued. “But to date, we do not see that happening on a wide scale.”

Last week, New York City saw it's highest COVID-19 single day positivity rate since June. Additionally, President Donald Trump, along with several key Republican officials have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days. Two NFL games have also been postponed due to COVID-19.

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Cole Blake is currently an Editor at HotNewHipHop based out of Brooklyn, New York. He began working at the site as an intern back in 2018 while studying journalism at St. John’s University. In the time since, he’s graduated with a bachelor's degree and written extensively about a wide range of topics including pop culture, film & television, politics, video games, sports, and much more. He’s also covered music festivals such as Gov. Ball and Rolling Loud. You can find him publishing work for HNHH from Monday to Wednesday or on weekends. On the sports front, Cole’s a passionate NBA and NFL fan with his favorite teams being the Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Lakers. He also roots for the Yankees whenever he finds himself at Yankee Stadium or the Red Storm when in the company of other SJU alumni. His favorite hip-hop artists are billy woods, Earl Sweatshirt, Cam’ron, MIKE, and Mach-Hommy.
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