New York City Mayor Eric Adams has examined positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson introduced on Sunday afternoon.
“This AM, @NYCMayor woke up with a raspy voice and, out of an abundance of caution, took a PCR test that has come back positive,” press secretary Fabien Levy posted on Twitter. “At this time, the mayor has no other symptoms, but he is already isolating and will be cancelling [sic] all public events for the week.”
Levy added that Adams, 61, will proceed to work remotely and “immediately begin taking the anti-viral meds offered for free to NYC residents and encourages all New Yorkers eligible for these meds to take them as well.”
The announcement got here per week after Adams attended an annual high-profile dinner on the Gridiron Club in Washington, D.C. final weekend, which was a super-spreader occasion with at the least 67 attendees testing positive for COVID-19, together with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Adams was within the state capital of Albany as lately as Saturday for conferences with lawmakers.
Last month, the mayor lifted the vaccine mandate for indoor companies, eating and occasions all through New York City, following related strikes in Seattle and Boston.
According to the CDC, subvariant BA.2 of the omicron variant of COVID-19 now accounts for greater than 70 % of latest circumstances of the virus within the U.S., although circumstances stay low nationally. The BA.2 variant has additionally fueled a current rise in circumstances in New York City, however hospitalization and dying charges all through the town stay low.
