By Tom Tapp Deputy Managing Editor New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the hardest-hit state in the union will begin a staged reopening this Friday.
Three regions of the state will begin reopening May 15th. Those are Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley. Cuomo said those areas had met seven metrics that will be used to determine when loosening restrictions is appropriate.
Cuomo also announced that certain “low-risk” businesses can reopen this Friday. These include landscaping and gardening, low-risk outdoor recreational activities like tennis and drive-in movie theaters.
Today we enter a new phase in the battle against COVID-19. We have established criteria for reopening based on 7 metrics: pic.twitter.com/Ar1QzxLUyl —
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