As New York returns to more and more businesses, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention released a report Friday stressing that ‘universal masking and the avoidance of non-essential indoor spaces are recommended to reduce the spread of COVID-19’s. . ‘
The state plans to relax restrictions in several areas – on March 22, residential outdoor gatherings could more than double, from 10 people to 25. Social hangouts in public places could rise from 50 people to 100 people indoors and 200 people outdoors.
As certain COVID-19 test requirements have been introduced, weddings can hold 150 people from 15 March, and events at arts and entertainment venues can include 150 people indoors from 2 April. Indoor dining room is open again with a capacity of 35%.
Movie theaters reopened in New York City on Friday at a 25% occupancy rate, or a maximum of 50 visitors. On April 2, the city’s arts and entertainment venues can start again with a capacity of 33%, with an indoor capacity of 100-150 participants. Indoor buildings will be limited to 100 people, regardless of venue size, unless the venue can administer COVID-19 tests to all participants, in which case the limit will be increased to 150 people.
Meanwhile, the CDC has warned that indoor meals are accompanied by an increase in COVID-19 cases, while cases have increased from 41 to one hundred days after the introduction of the eating policy. More urgently, the admission of indoor eateries has been linked to an increase in daily death rates within 61 to one hundred days after the policy was introduced, the CDC said.
The increase in the number of COVID-19 cases may be due to factors such as increasing number of restaurants choosing to eat indoors again, as well as that restaurant eaters are more willing to eat indoors as time goes on.
“Restricting any meals at restaurants can help reduce the transmission of COVID-19 through the community and reduce the growth of cases and deaths,” the CDC said, coupled with strict and consistent masking policies.
The National Restaurant Association said in a statement on Friday that the CDC study was “a poorly informed attack on the industry hardest hit by the pandemic,” the New York Times reported, and researchers did not factor in outside as other business reopening considered. may have an effect on COVID-19 rates.
“If a positive link is found between ice cream sales and shark attacks, it would not mean that ice cream is causing shark attacks,” the association said in a statement.