After three bleak months of Covid19 followed by BlackLivesMatter protests, New York City is set to reopen with maximum caution
Protesters with masks walk across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan during a peaceful protest against police brutality and racism, on June 6, 2020 in New York. Famous stores were boarded up after days of unrest. The lights are out on Broadway theatres, and the subway no longer runs overnight.
It’s an inflexion point as the city tries to get back to business after becoming the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak, suffering a surge that killed more than 500 people a day at its early-to-mid-April peak. Overall, more than 21,000 people citywide have died of confirmed or probable Covid-19.
“As a city, we are ready to be back, start going out, living life, with the new reality, though,” of masks and two metre separation, said Arce, 31. “The new normal.”“I don’t know if it’s ever going to be like it was,” said Solomon, 22, who has a health-related job. Subway ridership is ticking back up after plunging from 5.4 million rides per weekday in February to under 450,000 in April, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says.
Yet Dr Ian Lipkin, a Columbia University epidemiologist who had Covid-19 himself in March, is concerned the virus might spread at the protests following Floyd's May 25 death.
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