De Blasio presses for second total lockdown in NYC

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) reiterated his belief Tuesday that the city needs to go into a full lockdown as COVID-19 cases continue to rise.

"Clearly these numbers are going in the wrong direction," de Blasio said, according to NBC4 New York. "Unfortunately, and I don't say it with anything but sorrow, but I do think it's needed. We're going to need to do some kind of shutdown in the weeks ahead, something that resembles the pause we were in in the spring."

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The policy to which he was referring entailed a total lockdown, with the exception of emergency workers, that was put into place after New York became the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. The plan banned "non-essential gatherings of individuals of any size for any reason" and closed all non-essential businesses statewide, among other things.

According to stats de Blasio shared to Twitter, New York experienced 160 new hospitalizations and 2,813 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday.

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