Despite the fact that the wedding venues are not in any of the coronavirus mini-cluster zones, state and city officials are still concerned about the event's superspreader potential.
A man speaks as hundreds of members of the Orthodox Jewish community wearing face masks attend the funeral for a rabbi who died from the coronavirus in the Borough Park neighborhood which has seen an upsurge of patients during the pandemic on April 05, 2020 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. The state of New York is banning a wedding set to draw 10,000 people on Monday in Williamsburg.
Cuomo said that there was a spike in cases in Rockland County red zones days after the gathering. On Thursday, there was an 11.26 percent positivity rate in coronavirus testing, up almost three percent from the day before. "Some of the complexity of the enforcement here, especially with members of the Orthodox community, they never comply with the rules," the governor said at the time.
Additionally, in Brooklyn red zones, the positivity rate from coronavirus testing on Thursday was 5.47 percent.
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