WATCH: Mayor de Blasio on how NYC is preparing for phase one of reopening
Mayor Bill de Blasio said on May 26 that New York City was preparing for the first phase of reopening its economy amid recovery from the novel coronavirus outbreak.
WATCH: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gives coronavirus update
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a set of thresholds Friday. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo said a short time later that it will be up to the state to make those decisions.
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Can U.S. transit workers be kept safe on crowded buses and trains?
U.S. transit workers have been hit hard by the coronavirus. More than 120 have died from the disease just within New York City Transit, and drivers and transport workers represent the second-largest share of work-related cases, according to a Harvard…
WATCH: Child vaccine doses down 63 percent during pandemic, NYC mayor says
The city health department compared numbers between March 23 and May 9, 2020 to the same period in 2019.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will allow Memorial Day ceremonies with up to 10 people despite statewide lockdown rules.
Online schooling will continue through the summer for some 177,700 New York City public school students, officials announced Tuesday.
"The first half of June is the first opportunity to relax anything," de Blasio said in a news conference.
The statewide lock down began on March 22, and some regions are expected to begin reopening on May 15.
As COVID-19 cases surged in March and April, New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital rapidly transitioned its care spaces to COVID-19 wards in an effort to stave off the virus and protect frontline workers at the epicenter of the outbreak.
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