NYC might begin reopening in the first half of June, allowing construction to resume and retailers to reopen with some restrictions, Mayor Bill de Blasio said today.
, including available hospital beds and steadily declining Covid-19 hospitalizations, that regions must meet in order to begin reopening. New York City has met three of its seven indicators.
Phase one of reopening allows regions to resume manufacturing, construction and agricultural operations and retailers to reopen with limitations, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo previously said. New York City has seen a 14-day decline in net hospitalizations and a 14-day decline in hospital deaths and it's testing more than 30 people per 1,000 residents every month — meeting three of the state's seven criteria to begin the first phase of reopening. In order to meet the guidelines, the city must further drive down new hospitalizations, increase the share of total hospital beds available and increase the share of ICU beds available.
"We clearly are making progress. There are several that we've met ... There's been clear progress on the number of hospital beds and the number of ICU beds," de Blasio said. "Those are two areas where we need to go farther but we're getting close to those goals and I think there's a point in the first half of June when we'll meet those."
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