Restaurants in New York City can increase their indoor dining capacity by 35 percent next Friday.
Cuomo said Friday during a virtual Albany press briefing that the rate of COVID-19 positivity and hospitalization across the Empire State has been looking downward in recent weeks, “so it’s now time to start opening more.” there is time.”
“We will go up to 35 percent in a week [capacity] New York City restaurants, tailored to New Jersey, ”Cuomo said, stating that city residents are choosing to dine in New Jersey, where indoor dining capacity increased to 35 percent earlier this month.
Indoor dining at the Big Apple restaurant reopened at a 25 percent capacity again last Friday as the governor again shut down indoor trade in the city’s eateries – financially ravaged by a coronavirus epidemic in mid-December They went.
The rest of New York State is allowed to serve indoors at 50 percent capacity.
“We are responding to the data. Obviously, we are more sensitive to New York City because of density, concentration, history. “But we are going in the right direction. We are making progress. “
According to the latest state data, the statewide coronavirus positivity rate was 3.49 percent on Thursday.
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