Economic activity further eased in NY City Resumption of eating and drinking at restaurants 7:23 on June 23

In New York City, USA, where the spread of the new coronavirus was the most serious, economic activity was further eased on the 22nd, and eating and drinking at restaurants using outdoor seats resumed for the first time in almost three months. However, it seems that it will take some time to return to full-fledged economic activity, as some stores are still closed due to the time required to take infection prevention measures.

On the 22nd, a restaurant in Manhattan in the center of New York was set up on the sidewalk in front of the store with a table about 1.8 meters apart, and was crowded with people enjoying lunch.

A female visitor said, "I'm very happy to be able to eat at my favorite restaurant after a long time."

In addition, the use of playground equipment in the park was also permitted, and there was a masked parent and child in Central Park in Manhattan.

With the resumption of this economic activity, New York City forecasts that up to 300,000 people will be able to return to work.In the future, while checking the situation of infection, sales of restaurants and movies using the shop The policy is to reopen the building.

However, some stores are still closed due to the time required to take infection prevention measures for customers and employees, and it is expected that it will take some time before full-scale economic activities resume.

About 60% of the city's prospects for reopening applications

With the resumption of economic activity this time, New York City forecasts that about 5,000 restaurants will start operating, but at a press conference on May 22, Mayor Debrasio said that the stores that applied for resumption were last weekend. At that point, it was revealed that there were just over 3100 stores.

When resuming business, it was pointed out that in addition to measures to prevent infections of customers and employees, the number of people who can use it is limited, etc. ..

For this reason, it seems that there are many restaurants that have already decided to close or close due to the prolonged holiday period, and tourists can not expect for the time being, so the New York City economy is likely to continue to be in a serious state. ..

At a press conference on May 22, Mayor Debrasio said, "We have to move forward, but we won't be able to get back to where we were before."

At a hair salon run by a Japanese

In New York City, barbershops and hair salons have resumed business from this day, but they are taking many measures to prevent infection, such as setting up partitions and reducing the number of seats.

Of these, a Japanese-owned hair salon in Brooklyn, southern New York City, was visited by many customers as soon as it opened.

In order to keep customers away from each other, the number of seats was reduced from 7 to 4, and partitions were installed between the seats to strengthen infection control.

In addition, the temperature of customers who visit the store, the disinfection solution is always stocked, the seats are disinfected every time the customer changes, and the employees are also changed in the morning and afternoon.

Hiroya Watase, who has run this hair salon for six years, said, “I was happy to be back in three months, and I couldn't sleep yesterday. It was."

A woman in her 60s, who visited as her first guest, said, “I made a reservation immediately after being notified of the resumption. It was fun to hear what I was doing in the restricted area, and I had a haircut. I'm glad to hear from you."

At the time of restarting, the shop said that the price of all menus including cut was raised by 5 dollars, 500 yen, due to the reduction of seats and the cost of infection control etc., but it means that it is not running out at all.