To know what
- Violations of the new COVID ban imposed in NYC a day earlier will result in heavy fines from Friday; Breach of mass aggregation in one day can cost up to 15,000
- The new restrictions are based on the color-coded cluster areas of government Andrew Cuomo; The red zone sees strict rules, which are in effect for at least two weeks, but may be for longer.
- They come as New York State looks at its highest total COVID hospitals since July and NYC’s daily case averages over 500; The New Jersey case and hospitalization are also seeing improvement
New York City will begin imposing heavy fines on Friday, as new COVID restrictions will be enforced by the city and state at months-long highs as infection rates in hotspots increase.
In one day, a fine of up to 15,000 000 is applied for violation of the rules of mass collection; In red cluster areas, there is a complete ban on it. Twenty-five percent of the capacity or a maximum of 10 people’s hats apply to homes of worship, while schools have closed all remote and volatile businesses. With fines of up to $ 1,000 a day for social distance and mask-wearing violators – and Mayor Bill de Blasio has warned that those who do not follow the rules will suffer the consequences.
Various restrictions are found in the orange and red cluster zone areas, although within the latter, with mandatory weekly testing, schools are only allowed to stay in person. The new restrictions are for at least two weeks; They will not be picked up until the infection rate trend returns to the numbers seen by New York this summer.
The announcement of the cluster zone earlier this week drew strong opposition, mainly from heavily affected religious communities, who criticized the renewed ban on places of worship. Govt. Andrew Cuomo said the rules are not targeted, but based on science and data – and reflect those in the field who, in his view, violate COVID precautions and allow spikes in the first place.
The governor said the New York sanctions, which apply to clusters in Brooklyn and Queens, as well as Orange, Rockland and Broom counties, cover about 6 percent of the state’s population. The same percentage of the state’s population accounts for about a quarter of recent daily new COVID cases. Twenty hotspot zip codes have an 8. pos percent positivity rate, five times the statewide average and much higher than the New York City average in recent weeks.
While overall infection rates remain low, total COVID hospitals have hit statewide and recent highs in the city. A total of 754 hospital admissions were reported in New York on Thursday, the highest number since July 16. The average New York City daily COVID case has nearly doubled in the past month.
Handout Daily COVID cases across the city reach an average of months.
Handout Citywide hospital admissions for Kovid have increased in recent weeks.
Neighboring New Jersey is now struggling to keep optics in two counties – Ocean and Monmouth. Gov. Phil Murphy reported 1,301 new cases in his briefing on Thursday, the highest daily number since late May. He also enrolled in 652 hospitals, the highest total since 5 Aug Gust.
Asked if there would be a new ban on indoor gatherings in New Jersey, Murphy said Thursday, “Every option stays on the table. Can we see a little move on indoor gatherings? Maybe.” He noted that there is no evidence that indoor dining, which the state resumed after delays last month, is contributing.
Protests erupted in the Brooklyn Borough Park neighborhood on Tuesday and Wednesday night and after announcing new restrictions on schools, businesses and places of worship in parts of the city and state. NBC New York’s Ray Wilda and Czech Beckford report.
New Jersey’s health commissioner said Thursday that about 15 percent of the state’s new cases could be linked to September’s religious services, which at the time were celebrating the holiest days of the Jewish calendar. He pointed to 206 new cases in Lakewood, which found more positive rates than the statewide average, involving predominantly white, non-Latino men between the ages of 19 and 49.
Generally, there is a lot of concern in both the states about the autumn season. Cuomo warns that New York’s overall low infection rate will not be sustainable by fall even without cluster areas.
Fall means cooler weather, which means more indoor activities. That means the flu season. That means schools – if they can safely manage to stay open. New Jersey has confirmed 16 outbreaks involving public schools, with a total of 58 reported cases.
Daily percentage of positive tests by New York area
Andrew Cuomo of the government divided the state into 10 regions for testing purposes and found positivity rates to identify potential hotspots. This is the latest tracking data by field. For the latest county-level results across the state, click here
The two states together have lost at least 1,700 people to the virus, according to NBC News, which is one-fifth of the country’s death toll.
At least 21,000 people have been lost in New York City alone, including deaths that may have been caused by Covid but not definitively connected to it by diagnosis. The CDC has said that somehow more fat could cause 1,000 more casualties.
Nationally, the death toll has risen in the last two months, according to NBC News. It tops 213,000 in recent estimates with more than a million confirmed cases. The country’s top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fawcett said Thursday that U.S. They are not comfortable with the level of COVID cases as fall and winter enter.
The U.S. reports about 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, which can get worse as temperatures cool and people go indoors, MSN said in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “I’m not comfortable with that. I’d like to see that level, the way, down, below 10,000.”
Worldwide, confirmed CV deaths have exceeded 1 million, although officials acknowledge that the actual toll is significantly higher than reported.
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