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New York health officials have prohibited, due to COVID-19, the celebration of a wedding in the tradition of Orthodox Jews, scheduled for Monday, which could gather up to 10,000 guests.
“They can get married, but they cannot invite thousands of people to the wedding. The result is the same, after all, and it is also cheaper,” said New York State Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo in an interview. announce the measure on Saturday at a press conference.
The Hasidic (Jewish current) marriage of a rabbi’s grandson would take place in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where a large Orthodox Jewish community lives.
In certain areas of Brooklyn, particularly in several areas with an Orthodox Jewish majority, there was an increase in the number of cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in September, and the authorities threatened to resume confinement measures if the situation does not improve.
The Williamsburg neighborhood does not appear, however, in the so-called “red zones”, since there were no outbreaks of covid-19.
Recently, the Orthodox Jewish community protested in New York against localized restrictions that were put in place to stop the pandemic, accusing authorities of stigmatization.
The New York governor last week ordered the closure of non-essential commerce by the end of the month and limited access to places of worship in neighborhoods inhabited by Orthodox Jews to 10 people.
United States with 701 deaths and 59,740 cases in 24 hours
The United States is the country with the most deaths and also with the most confirmed cases of infection.
In the past 24 hours, there were 701 COVID-19 deaths and 59,740 cases, according to an independent tally from Johns Hopkins University.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has totaled 8,100,662 infections and 219,156 deaths, according to figures registered by the North American university, based in Baltimore (east), until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday (1:00 a.m. Sunday in mainland Portugal).
Although New York is no longer the state with the highest number of infections, it continues to register more deaths, more than 33,000, a figure similar to that of countries such as Peru, Spain or France.
Next, in number of deaths, are the states of Texas (17,437), California (16,942), New Jersey (16,204) and Florida (15,917).
California is the state with the most confirmed cases (873,324), followed by Texas (847,605), Florida (752,481) and New York (482,891).
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