New York has announced the reopening of sports stadiums and limited capacity concert halls from February 23

The state of New York announced the reopening – with limited capacity – of sports stadiums and concert halls closed from February 23.

This was confirmed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who detailed that sports facilities with a total capacity of 10,000 people or more could reopen at 10% capacity, as part of a slight easing of restrictions put in place for control coronavirus infections.

A month ago, New York State allowed nearly 7,000 fans to attend a Buffalo Bills football game in Orchard Park. “It was an incomparable success”, Cuomo said at a press conference on the matter, adding: “We will now extend the example of the Buffalo Bills to any major stadium or arena. “

These spaces generally host sports matches such as hockey, basketball, football and baseball, as well as musical events and other varied shows.

Each facility will need to submit a plan to the state health department that will need to be approved to allow reopening. This plan should include the compulsory use of the mask Yes allocated seats to facilitate social distancing. In addition, each participant must submit a negative result of a PCR test –not a quick test – within 72 hours of the event.

“It’s the balance for a safe reopening”, Cuomo said.

Cuomo also said the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough will be the first stadium to open under those guidelines on February 23. Basketball team Brooklyn Nets will host the Sacramento Kings that day as part of the NBA regular season.

The governor’s announcement came after the New York’s COVID-19 positivity rate has fallen to its lowest average since December 1: around 4%.

In addition, the the number of confirmed cases is also decreasing and the number of vaccines is increasingCuomo said. So far, the state has administered 2.6 million doses.

Last week, Hundreds of people started getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at iconic Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, the borough most affected by the virus in New York and one of the poorest in the United States, where the majority of the population is African American and Latin American.

Vaccination at the emblematic stage of the baseball team is reserved for district residents only, in an effort by authorities to expand immunization into poorer neighborhoods.

“It’s choosing between life and death,” he told the agency. AFP Inés Figueroa, a 64-year-old Puerto Rican who resides in the Bronx after receiving the vaccinator at the stage. Her husband died last month due to complications from the disease and Figueroa contracted it as well, although he had no symptoms.

Monday, Cuomo had announced that restaurants in New York could reopen their closed rooms from February 12 at 25% of their capacity.

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