NEW YORK –
Below you will find the most up-to-date information on news of coronaviruses impacting New York. You can find additional resources and coverage on our Coronavirus page.Happening today:
11:30 am Governor Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to give his daily coronavirus briefing. Come back here to watch live.
Below you will find the most up-to-date information on news of coronaviruses impacting New York. You can find additional resources and coverage on our Coronavirus page.Happening today:
11:30 am Governor Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to give his daily coronavirus briefing. Come back here to watch live.
9:30 a.m.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio held his daily coronavirus briefing. Watch the video below.
Reopening in NYC
- Communities depend on small businesses and mom and pop stores
- Restaurant revitalization program: Support the unemployed and underemployed in restaurants.
- $ 3 million from NYC Opportunity, the Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC and One Fair Wage.
- Focus on 27 most affected communities.
- Grants up to $ 30,000 each to subsidize an hourly wage of $ 20 for six weeks.
- Restaurants must commit to a minimum wage of $ 15 in addition to tips for the next five years
NYC Youth
- Three programs implemented by NYC Young Men’s Initiative in partnership with the Dept. of Probation Neighborhood Opportunity Network (NeON)
- Neon Summer: $ 3.65 million to support NeON SUmmer, providing 2,700 young people with paid summer immersion for 6 to 8 weeks
- The program provides job preparation, career expiration and mentoring, social and civic leadership
- Each teaches a: $ 100,000 to support the program and put young people in touch with mentors and media experts. Young people paid to design messages and media campaigns to promote social distancing
- Community crisis response initiative: $ 220,000 to support at least 500 young people in 22 community organizations focused on crisis response.
- Other neighborhoods: East New York, Brownsville, Jamaica, Far Rockaway, South Bronx, North Shore Staten Island
Youth town halls
- NYC will organize a series of youth town halls in each borough
- NYPD agents will work in partnership with Cure Violence providers and meet local teens, explore youth-police interactions
- Pilot project in Harlem with Street Corner Resources, expansion in the five boroughs in areas with strong police and youth interaction.
Daily indicators (all below the threshold)
- COVID Hospital Admissions: 69
- ICU H + H: 337
- Percentage tested positive: 3%
Q&A
- Chancellor Carranza’s plans for schools.
- We will continue to be on a continuum, but we do not know what three months will look like.
- What the chancellor says is that we have to be ready.
- We have to make it safe, we think we can.
- Faster action on police discipline
- The mayor wants the measures to be taken in a few days.
- Expect the model for the future to be speed and transparency.
- Make sure the NYPD conducts the investigation quickly, the results obtained and the discipline.
Latest official figures:
As of Thursday morning, there were 380,156 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York, with a death toll of 24,404.
COVID-19 timeline: how the new coronavirus spread
Tips to protect yourself and others in the event of a coronavirus outbreak
The New York State Coronavirus Helpline is 1-888-364-3065; information is also published here
