After becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the USA, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced plans for New York City to “fully reopen” by July 1. During an appearance on MSNBC’S Morning Joe on Thursday, he said “we are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open,” adding that the same applied to offices and theaters. “What we’re seeing is people have gotten vaccinated, an extraordinary number, 6.3 million vaccinations in New York City to date.”
While it may take time New York City’s vibrant cultural industries to recover from months of shutdown, he insisted that “we now have the confidence that we can pull all these pieces together and get life back really in many ways to where it was, where people can enjoy an amazing summer,” he said. “This is going to be the summer of New York City.”
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