Coronavirus Debate: Should Our Elected Leaders Be Tested?
There are questions over whether or not our local elected leaders are being tested for coronavirus, after members of the White House staff tested positive.
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There are questions over whether or not our local elected leaders are being tested for coronavirus, after members of the White House staff tested positive.
Altogether, the new openings mean there will be 30 miles of streets for people to take advantage of.
New York City needs help, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.
Tri-State Area officials have repeatedly said testing and tracing will be key to reopening the economy in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city has confirmed 52 cases, including one death. Ten other cases are pending.
The suspects allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks, then grabbed one man's face mask and punched him in the face.
De Blasio laid out a plan to strengthen community-based health providers, specifically focusing on more than 1,000 in 26 neighborhoods.
There have been 38 cases detected in New York City, and there are an additional nine suspected cases yet to be confirmed.
"The last thing we want to see is enforcement if there's any other way to get the job done," Mayor Bill de Blasio said. "Enforcement has always been the last resort."
The videos of police aggressively arresting members of the minority community on social distancing violations have angered many.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says highly trained individuals will make up the "Test and Trace Corps."
De Blasio said police and other agencies will be in position before crowds build and keep people moving.
New York City is expanding its antibody testing and telemedicine, as well as homeless and domestic violence outreach, the mayor says.
The shutdown has been touted as a way to disinfect the trains and stations, but it's also meant to get the homeless out of the system.
The councils "will help us understand what is needed to get this restart right," de Blasio said.
Fifteen children, between the ages of 2 and 15 years old, are suffering from a multi-system inflammatory syndrome.
The NYPD is handing out masks at places like the Hudson River Park, but where it's handing out summonses is up for debate, CBS2's Lisa Rozner reported. The agency is disclosing how many tickets it has issued, but not where.
The mayor held up an issue of the New York Post, in which the president said bailing out Democratic states, like New York, would be unfair to Republicans.
Video posted on social media shows officers arrest one man, then what appears to be an officer using a Taser and punching another man who tried to intervene to the ground.
De Blasio warned that it remains very possible that the disease will "boomerang" in the city.
"The bottom line is we can not let up now," Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The nightly shut down will commence at 1 a.m. May 6.
Starting this week, the city will distribute 100,000 masks to parks across the five boroughs.
"If we do this right, it is a science, reopening," Cuomo said. "It is based on numbers and data."
The MTA also announced some additional changes to its Code of Conduct on Wednesday.
