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NYC on the verge of another indoor dining shutdown amid COVID-19 spike

By
Nolan Hicks and
Bernadette Hogan
Published Nov. 19, 2020
Updated Nov. 19, 2020, 4:08 p.m. ET

The clock could start ticking on a Big Apple indoor dining shutdown as early next week if the city’s coronavirus infection rate does not slow down, state data obtained by The Post shows.

And Mayor Bill de Blasio affirmed Thursday that new restrictions are likely coming.

Hizzoner made another COVID-related business curtailment sound as if it was fait accompli during an interview on 1010 WINS radion where he was pressed on the possibility of Cuomo invoking the COVID-19 ‘orange zone’ rules locally.

“The governor’s made very clear — the state has the ultimate decision there — but he made very clear yesterday those closures are coming, too, and they’re coming soon,” de Blasio told the radio station. “Given what these numbers are telling us, given how intense this upsurge is, you’re going to see those additional restrictions very quickly.”

Pressed by host Brigitte Quinn if that meant indoor dining could shut within days, de Blasio responded it could.

“I don’t know if it’s a few days or a week or two, but it’s coming and the governor made that very clear yesterday,” he said. “I think that it’s quite clear that, within the next week or two, those restrictions are gonna be applied in New York City.”

A temperature check sign seen at the entrance of a NYC diner.
Robert Miller

Gotham would hit Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s thresholds for imposing orange zone restrictions if its seven-day state testing average exceeds 3 percent for more than 10 days.

Those rules suspend indoor dining, close down gyms and salons and impose a four-person limit on tables for outdoor dining.

The city’s average remained at 2.5 percent Thursday as the five boroughs battle an ongoing surge of new COVID-19 cases. Officials fear that if nothing changes, Gotham will cross the 3 percent mark sometime next week — triggering the 10-day clock on orange zone restrictions.

The state’s seven-day average for New York City has been on an uninterrupted upward trend for the last month: rising from 1.1 percent on Oct. 18 to 1.5 percent by Nov. 1 and eventually crossing the 2 percent threshold on Nov. 10, data obtained by The Post shows.

Under the ‘orange zone’ rules, schools too must be shut unless districts can meet tough coronavirus testing requirements.

“We announced the orange zone law over a month ago,” Cuomo said during a contentious briefing with reporters Wednesday. “It always said: If by the state’s numbers you hit 3%, the schools close. What’s going on here is nothing that the law hasn’t said for over a month.”