NYC To Raise COVID Alert Level Amid Spike In Cases

NY1 reports:

New York City is expected to move to a “medium” COVID-19 alert level within the next week as its case count continues to rise, the city’s health commissioner said Friday. In an interview with NY1 on Friday afternoon, Dr. Ashwin Vasan [photo] said cases in the five boroughs were “rising steadily.”

As of Wednesday, the department said the two variants — which are sub-lineages of the BA.2 variant of omicron — accounted for 80.6% of the state’s infections.

Vasan on Friday advised New Yorkers to readopt more cautious masking protocols. While there is no evidence that the new variants cause more severe illness, he said, they are “certainly being transmitted faster than the original omicron variant.”

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