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“The micro-cluster zones are down all across the state, he said. You look at where they where Erie County was: 7.8. They’re down to 5.1. So you see a drop in both the Orange and the Yellow zones. Given the progress they’ve made, the restrictions are lifted in those zones.”
Cuomo said the lifting of restrictions is due, in some part, to the way the state rebounded in the week after what he called the “holiday surge” from Thanksgiving through the New Year.
“I think at this point,” Cuomo said, “it’s safe to say the holiday surge was anticipated. The holiday surge did happen. But the holiday surge is over. If you look at the numbers over the past week, you see positivity [rates] on the decline. Our high point was 7.9%. We’re down to 5.6%.”
NEW YORK (WABC) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo lifted COVID restrictions in the state s orange and yellow zone micro-clusters. A few yellow zones remain in the Bronx, Washington Heights, Queens, and Newburgh.
But in New York City, Cuomo said a plan for NYC restaurants remains in the works. He is talking to political officials and the health department. The governor said he will have a plan for city restaurants by the end of the week. We will have an announcement at the end of the week, but we are looking at going back to the 25%, that would be the question. How and when we do you do that, Cuomo said.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo, saying the COVID-19 rate in New York has begun declining, is lifting some restrictions in nearly all orange and yellow microcluster zones that were aimed at controling the spread of the virus. He is also developing a plan to allow limited indoor dining in New York City.
The microcluster hot zones were developed by Cuomo and his aides last fall as an attempt to contain the further spread of the coronavirus. But in recent months, businesses in areas designated as yellow or orange zones complained that they had to endure more restrictions than other areas where the positivity rate for the virus was even higher.