New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday said a new shutdown in New York City could be coming within weeks, possibly right after Christmas, as the Big Apple struggles to keep COVID-19 metrics low. “Clearly these numbers I went over a moment ago, they're going in the wrong direction," de Blasio said at a press conference. "We are just on the verge of a huge breakthrough with a vaccine, but we’re also dealing with a second wave.
We've got to beat it back, we got to protect lives, we got to protect our hospitals." De Blasio had announced that there had been 160 hospitalizations on Sunday, below the city’s 200 threshold.