COVID-19 patients will be allowed visitors in some New York hospitals and small MemorialDay ceremonies will be allowed
COVID-19 patients will be allowed visitors in some New York hospitals and small Memorial Day ceremonies will be permitted, it was announced Tuesday. In New York City, online schooling will continue through the summer for some 177,700 public school students.Sixteen hospitals in New York state will allow visitors as part of a pilot program addressing the heartbreak of COVID-19 patients suffering while isolated from their families and friends.
“It is terrible to have someone in the hospital and then that person is isolated, not being able to see their family and friends,” Cuomo said.The governor made the announcement as COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline. There are an average of 335 new hospitals admissions a day.New York will allow Memorial Day ceremonies with up to 10 people despite statewide lockdown rules, Cuomo said Tuesday.
New York City remains under the economic lockdown along with Long Island and the mid-Hudson Valley, which includes the city’s northern suburbs.New York City's virus-disrupted school year will extend into the summer for 177,700 youngsters, or about one in six students in the public school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.
Summer school will be five days a week for high school students and four days for children in grades 3 through 8, said Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. It will include virtual field trips and one-on-one check-ins with guidance counselors and social workers. “We need to take this weight off the shoulders of the families of these valiant New Yorkers,” said de Blasio, who said 270 city employees have died of the virus so far.
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