(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The New York Mayor tested positive for the new crown on the 100th day of his inauguration
China News Agency, New York, April 10. The New York Mayor's Office said on the 10th that New York Mayor Eric Adams (Eric Adams) tested positive for the new crown virus nucleic acid.
That day happened to be Adams' 100th day as mayor.
A statement from the mayor's office said Adams woke up that morning with a hoarse voice and took a nucleic acid test, which came back positive, just in case.
Although Adams currently has no symptoms other than a hoarse voice, he is self-isolating and canceling public events for a week, while he begins taking antiviral drugs that the city provides free to all citizens.
He will continue to work remotely during the quarantine.
The New York Times reported that the mayor's press secretary, Fabien Levy, said Adams had been fully vaccinated against the new crown, but it was unclear whether he had received a booster shot.
The report said Adams took a rapid test for the new coronavirus antigen himself last week, and the result was negative at the time.
He traveled to Albany, New York, to meet with lawmakers last week and attended several events related to his 100-day inauguration.
The New York Times said it was difficult to pinpoint when and where a person was infected, but Adams attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, D.C., last weekend.
NBC said 68 people at the dinner had tested positive for the new crown, including U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
According to data from the New York City government website on the 10th, the current 7-day average of new positive cases of new crowns in New York City in a single day is 1,590, and the 7-day average of the positive rate is 3.30%, both showing an upward trend.
The 7-day average of the number of hospitalizations in a single day was 22, and the 7-day average of the number of deaths that tested positive for the new coronavirus in a single day was 3, both showing a downward trend.
The website also publishes data on the infection of new crown vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
Since January 17, 2021, when people in New York City received two complete doses of the vaccine for the first time, a total of 725,684 people who have been vaccinated have tested positive for the new coronavirus, 20,622 people have been hospitalized, and 2,782 people have died; a total of 854,855 people who have not been vaccinated have tested positive. 53,019 people were hospitalized and 8,560 died.
In mid-January this year, the infection peak brought by the Omicron strain to New York began to decline rapidly, but recently, the Omicron strain subtype BA.2 has led to an increase in the infection rate.
According to estimates by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 84% of the new positive cases of the new crown in New York State are currently infected with the Omicron strain subtype BA.2.
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