NEW YORK : Exactly 100 days after the first coronavirus case was confirmed in New York City, some workers began returning to jobs on Monday at the start of reopening from a citywide shutdown to battle the epidemic that killed nearly 22,000 of its residents.People who had been staying home for months boarded subways and buses as the most populous U.S.
city began Phase One of its hopeful journey toward economic recovery."This is clearly the hardest place in America to get to this moment because we're the epicenter," Mayor Bill de Blasio told a news conference at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.New York, by far the hardest-hit U.S.