NEW YORK—New York City’s famed restaurant scene will re-open for indoor dining on Valentine’s Day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday, the latest announcement by a state to ease public health restrictions as a deadly surge of COVID-19 begins to abate.
The flattening of hospitalization rates has led several states to loosen public health restrictions, even as officials caution that cases could surge again, and highly contagious strains of the virus from other countries appear in the United States.
