New York City restaurants lose indoor dining as infection rate rises

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New York City’s restaurants must stop serving meals indoors on Monday as COVID-19 hospitalizations fail to stabilize and the infection rate for the virus rises in the densely populated metropolis, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday.

The governor acknowledged that indoor dining accounts for only a fraction of the city’s new cases, but said he was concerned about an “Rt 1.3” transmission rate, meaning that one infected person transmits it to 1.3 others.

“The Rt rate going up in a dense environment is really a compounding problem,” Cuomo told a news briefing. “New York City is different. A high transmission rate in a dense environment is different.”