New York, the world's No. 1 international city, was called 'a city that never sleeps' because the lights did not go out 365 days a year.

New York's subways have been operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

However, late-night service on the New York City subway was suspended to prevent corona.

Shutdown times are 4 hours from 1 AM to 5 AM every day, starting from the last 6 days of local time.

[Patrick Poye / New York Transportation Corporation (MTA) Chairman: When it's 1:00 a.m., everyone must go outside the subway station. Excludes uniformed staff, police, nurses and essential workers with the police.]

It was the first time in New York City subway history that a subway night service had been suspended.

This is because disinfection and hygiene management of the subway, a public transportation system attracted by people, has become more important than ever before the economic activity resumes.

[Sarah Painberg / New York City Department of Transportation: It's not a big deal, but it will disinfect nearly 500 subway stations and everything the passengers can reach. Even if the number of passengers increases again, we will continue to sterilize.] In the

meantime, as Corona 19 spread, the number of passengers using public transportation has decreased by nearly 90%, and the New York City subway is $ 8 billion this year, and our money is 7.9 trillion won. A deficit of up to is expected.

Even if the passengers come back to the subway, it is not possible to pick up the passengers as before by leaving the streets in the subway.

Eric rojel / Transport union Vice Chairman: To perfectly in terms of putting social distance, when in front of you coaches soegidung, then people should be separated by two, and then people must again by off -

normally York subway carriages The number of passengers is about 150, and if you want to strictly keep the distance, you should limit the number of passengers in a carriage to 30 to 40.

New York City traffic authorities are hiring separate staff to guide passengers at the subway station to help them not get congested, and are considering ways to measure their body temperature from time to time.

It seems that it will take some time for the New York City subway to return to normal.