Broadway shows will reopen in September at 100% capacity, New York governor says
Broadway theaters stand closed in the theater district on June 30, 2020, in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo just announced that Broadway shows will be ready to open September 14 at 100% capacity.
Tickets will go on sale tomorrow, he announced in a tweet.
The logistics regarding how theaters will reopen are still being ironed out, State Budget Director Robert Mujica said at the news conference.
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The Portugal-India bilateral summit which had been planned to take place during Portugal’s presidency of the Council of the EU has been postponed until the leaders involved can attend in person, Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs confirmed on Tuesday (5 May).
Augusto Santos Silva was testifying to a hearing of the European affairs committee of Portugal’s parliament, in reply to a question from Bruno Dias, a member for the Communist Party, on the bilateral summit that had been announced for the coming weekend in Porto.
Saturday will see an EU-India Leaders’ Meeting, as it is being termed, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi “participating by videoconference”, Santos Silva said.
India central bank steps up loan relief
ECONOMIC SUPPORT: New measures include loan restructuring for small businesses, boosting credit for healthcare services, fresh loans to vaccine makers and bond buying
Bloomberg
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) yesterday announced new loan relief measures for small businesses and pledged to inject 500 billion rupees (US$6.8 billion) of liquidity to support the economy against a second deadly COVID-19 wave.
Some businesses would be eligible for loan restructuring to give them more time to repay debt and keep them going through the COVID-19 pandemic, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said in an unscheduled address.
He also announced steps to boost credit for healthcare services, provide fresh lending to vaccine makers and a bond-buying program.
Indian university projection estimates 50 million Covid-19 cases by mid-June
From CNN s Aditi Sangal and Swati Gupta
A medical worker observes patients inside a Covid-19 ward that was set up inside a sports stadium in New Delhi on May 2. Getty Images
India could see more than 403,000 Covid-19 total deaths and nearly 50 million total cases by June 11 this year, according to a projection model from the Indian Institute of Science.
In the event that the Indian government imposes a 15-day lockdown, India could bring the number of deaths down to fewer than 300,000 in the same time frame, and will see a total of fewer than 30 million cases since the pandemic started. That number falls further in case of a 21-day and 30-day lockdown.