Public schools in New York City won’t reopen for in-person learning unless the city’s daily COVID-19 positive-test rate is kept below three percent, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
“We are going to hold New York City to a very high standard, our schools to a very high standard,” de Blasio said during a Friday morning press conference. “We will not reopen our schools unless the city infection rate is below three percent.” This is much tougher than what has been suggested by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said last month that schools should be able to reopen if the daily infection rate was kept below five percent over a fourteen day average.
