New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, to contain the spread of Covid-19 in what was once the US epicentre of the pandemic, has said that he is moving to shut non-essential businesses as well as schools in nine neighbourhoods identified as coronavirus clusters, starting on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
Seeking state approval for the lockdown, de Blasio said it would affect nine ZIP codes where coronavirus positivity rates have spiked, sometimes as the result of failure to social distance and wear face masks. He said neighbourhoods in another 11 ZIP codes were on a “watch list” because of their rising positivity rates.
