In Florida, which reopened bars and restaurants earlier this month, emergency physician Rajiv Bahl said cases were rising across age groups.
New York businesses opened their doors to returning waves of workers on Monday as the city that was once the epicenter of the global pandemic marked an important milestone in its return to normalcy, even as other US states were seeing an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases.
Yury Ykubov, the owner, told AFP he had opened the shop six months prior, and negotiated with the landlord to make rent during the lockdown. “I’m slightly nervous, like it’s the first day I come to work, the first day somebody hired me,” he laughed. But the picture is far less positive in other parts of the United States, with the virus spiking in several states despite predictions that summer heat, humidity and bright sunlight would limit its spread.
“While it is not exactly known why this is the case, it may be because of the opening of bars and restaurants,” he added, with those working in the service industry accounting for a high volume of the cases. Top officials from the administration of President Donald Trump, meanwhile, continued to downplay the severity of the pandemic, a nearly constant theme since the virus was first reported in the United States in January.
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