The city Health Department said Thursday it will shut non-essential businesses and limit gatherings in the city’s coronavirus hot spots if cases continue to rise in the areas.
The reopening rollbacks could hit nine “cluster” sites where virus cases have ticked up, including a large swath of southern Brooklyn and Williamsburg — as well as Kew Gardens and Edgemere-Far Rockaway in Queens.
The Health Department will ramp up inspections in the areas to assure mask compliance and social distancing practices, the department said in a press release.
The measures could come as early as Tuesday. If cases continue to rise, the city will consider banning all gatherings of more than 10 people; issuing fines to those refusing to wear a mask when offered; closing private schools and care centers; and shutting down non-essential businesses.
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remembering from last time, bars are essential, whiles religious institutions are not, right?
The following non-essential and non-productive services can be shut down immediately. Charlene McCray’s task forces. Municipal unions. Traffic enforcement revenue collectors. Sanitation revenue collectors (especially with all the masks and gloves on the sidewalks). Plastic bag enforcement. The NY Jets.
You can’t shut down the NY Jets! These sports keep people occupied and during the games crime drops.
Their department seems to be nonessential and detrimental to overall health.
He doesn’t do anything about protest or anything else that fits his socialist liberal Democrat agenda but heaven forbid there should be a Minyan or there should be a gathering of hlyidden, he has a big problem with it. He can go to ghenim!
Of course they will report that the cases keep rising. How else can they officially make a lockdown and finish up arrests of the elite corona criminals before elections?