NYC pumps brakes on reopening

NYC pumps brakes on reopening

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, laughs as he talks to the parents of a six-year-old child who thanked him for reopening the city's playgrounds as he dined in an outdoor booth with wife Chirlane McCray, right, and restaurant owner Melba Wilson at Melba's in Harlem on the first day of the Phase 2 reopening of the city during the coronavirus pandemic Monday, June 22, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he is delaying the planned resumption of indoor dining at restaurants in the city out of fear it would ignite a a spike in coronavirus infections. The mayor said Wednesday he is concerned that if the city welcomes diners back into the enclosed spaces of its restaurants, it might experience the same surge in illness now being seen in other states. Outdoor dining at restaurants, which started about two weeks ago, can continue. New York City is in the second phase of its reopening plan and is expected to get approval to go to a third phase on July 6.

 

 

 

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