As of Tuesday, more than 770 people in the city were hospitalized with Covid and 84 were in I.C.U.s. The new alert system Mr. Adams approved in March recommends instituting a mask mandate for public indoor settings at the current risk level. Some elected officials like Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, support bringing back a mask mandate for most public indoor settings. Philip D. Murphy in New Jersey has also resisted bringing back mandates and removed a mask mandate on New Jersey Transit trains that travel into the city. Ms. Hochul, who recently tested positive for the virus, has kept a mask mandate on public transit in place, but she has not set broader restrictions despite a major surge in upstate New York.

Source: New York Times May 20, 2022 03:58 UTC