Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sunday that he intended to "rewind" the reopening of nine neighborhoods in New York City that have had a testing positivity rate of more than 3 percent over the last seven days.
That means the closure of nonessential businesses and public and private schools in those neighborhoods, which are in Brooklyn and Queens. Many of them have large populations of Orthodox Jews, and the virus has been spreading rapidly in those communities in recent weeks.
"Today, unfortunately, is not a day for celebration," Mr. de Blasio said. "Today is a more difficult day."
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sunday that he intended to "rewind" the reopening of nine neighborhoods in New York City that have had a testing positivity rate of more than 3 percent over the last seven days.
That means the closure of nonessential [...]
