Long Island and the Mid-Hudson regions are on a trajectory to reopen, provided they see deaths continue to decline and meet contact-tracing targets, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday at a virus briefing.
In anticipation, construction preparation can begin in those two regions. With those areas, nine of 10 New York regions will have begun phased-in restarts, after more than seven weeks on lockdown.
New York City still has met only four of the state’s seven reopening metrics, due largely to a lack of capacity at the city’s hospitals.
It also must continue to build up its number of tracers, according to state data. “We said deliberately at the beginning of this, it’s going to be one standard that is data driven, there’s no politics here, and