New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday said that all school districts in his state, once the epicenter of the nation's COVID-19 crisis, could open for in-person learning in the fall based on their current low infection rates of the virus.
FILE PHOTO: Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State, speaks at the St. Nicolas National Shrine during an event to mark the roof going onto the building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
All New York regions have met the reopening threshold that Cuomo set in July, the governor said on Friday, with infection rates of the disease below 5% over on a 14-day average.“If you look at our infection rate we are probably in the best situation in the country right now,” Cuomo said. “If anybody can open schools, we can open schools.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has set a stricter threshold of a 3% infection rate for schools in the largest school district in the country to open, and last month released a “blended” reopening plan where students would spend two days at school and three learning at home, and then reverse the sequence in the following week.
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