New York celebrates end of coronavirus restrictions with maskless parade 2 minutes read
By Jorge Fuentelsaz
New York, Jul 7 (EFE).- Thousands of nurses, doctors, firefighters, waiters, delivery people and other frontline workers marched in New York City without masks on Wednesday to celebrate the end of restrictions implemented to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic in the largest parade held in the city since things were virtually shut down in March 2020.
Amid clouds of confetti and dozens of bands, the long caravan of officials and workers left Battery Park, from where the ferries to the Statue of Liberty depart, and moved along Broadway to the City Hall, forming a multicolored river of people.
Differing realities: As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a surge
Heather Hollinsworth and Deepti Hajela
The Associated Press
New York held a ticker-tape parade Wednesday for the health care workers and others who helped the city pull through the darkest days of COVID-19, while authorities in Missouri struggled to beat back a surge blamed on the fast-spreading delta variant and deep resistance to getting vaccinated.
The split-screen images could be a glimpse of what public health experts say may lie ahead for the U.S. even as the economy opens up again and life gets back to something close to normal: outbreaks in corners of the country with low vaccination rates.
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate
The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.
The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world s wars since 1982, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
The toll is three times the number of people killed in traffic accidents around the globe every year. It is about equal to the population of Los Angeles or the nation of Georgia. It is equivalent to more than half of Hong Kong or close to 50% of New York City.
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As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a surge
California, with 40 million people, is posting only slightly higher case numbers than Missouri, which has a population of 6 million.
By HEATHER HOLLINSWORTH and DEEPTI HAJELAAssociated Press
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New York held a ticker-tape parade Wednesday for the health care workers and others who helped the city pull through the darkest days of COVID-19, while authorities in Missouri struggled to beat back a surge blamed on the fast-spreading delta variant and deep resistance to getting vaccinated.
The split-screen images could be a glimpse of what public health experts say may lie ahead for the U.S. even as life gets back to something close to normal: outbreaks in corners of the country with low vaccination rates.
As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a COVID-19 surge Share Updated: 9:59 PM MDT Jul 7, 2021 By HEATHER HOLLINSWORTH and DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press
As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a COVID-19 surge Share Updated: 9:59 PM MDT Jul 7, 2021
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Show Transcript Yeah. Yeah last year living with what we lived and it was very gloom and doom and grave and you know we I didn t think we will see this you know and a lot of our co workers, healthcare workers, Fire Department police M. T. A. All of those people we ve lost a lot trying to help those who were ill. You know they mean everything. They re the ones that kept us going. These are the people that were behind the scenes in part of the scenes around the clock 24 7. And how do you know how do you got, Yeah. Yeah.