Gov. Andrew Cuomo is quietly preserving his finger on New York’s “Pause” button — primarily extending stay-at-home and mask-wearing directives to June 7.
Nevertheless, any of the state’s seven areas will nonetheless be capable to part in re-openings sooner in the event that they meet a collection of benchmarks.
These benchmarks embody a decline in hospitalizations and deaths, and a 30 p.c emptiness price in ICU and common hospital beds as safeguard towards a sudden spike in sicknesses.
The ban on non-essential gatherings continues because the state’s coronavirus demise toll exceeded 21,000 on Saturday.
The continued restrictions, prolonged with out fanfare by the governor on Thursday and Friday, sparked a small protest outdoors Metropolis Corridor on Saturday afternoon.
Thirty protesters, many not carrying masks and a few carrying American flags and “Reopen NY” indicators, had been met by a contingent of cops, who arrested 9 individuals on costs they didn't observe social distancing pointers.
“To fully shut down your entire state for one more three weeks doesn't make sense when some counties have few circumstances,” Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis mentioned.
“Proper right here in NYC, inexpensive housing development and metropolis sewer tasks are going down with DOZENS of staff however different outside work like pool or fence set up, landscaping for beautification and different dwelling enchancment jobs that require simply a few staff stay shut down all through your entire state,” she mentioned.
“To not enable them to return to work is a call that lacks consistency. The Speaker of the Meeting ought to name us again instantly to finish Gov. Cuomo’s expanded emergency powers and restore the standard authorities given to the Legislature so now we have a say in the way forward for our state.”
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