New York City Mayor Eric Adams
NEW YORK, April 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, the mayor’s office said a statement.
Adams “woke up with a raspy voice” on Sunday morning and tested positive, said the statement, adding that “At this time, the mayor has no other symptoms, but he is already isolating and will be canceling all public events for the remainder of the week.”
Adams will immediately begin taking the antiviral medications offered for free to New York City residents and encourages all New Yorkers eligible for these medications to take them as well, according to the statement.
Adams participated in a super-spreader event at Gridiron Club in Washington, D.C. last Sunday but had tested negative multiple times since the visit, said Adams’ press secretary Fabien Levy on Friday.
Statistics show that COVID-19 cases are seeing a significant rebound in multiple states in the Northeast and the East Coast of the United States including Washington D.C. Several high-profile government officials recently tested positive, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
The country reported 12,851 new cases in the past day, pushing the total to 80,400,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. However, experts said the confirmed cases were underreported due to a lack of testing.
The United States administered more than 2 million tests per day at the height of the Omicron wave in January, when a single-day record of about 1,400,000 new cases was reported. The tests dropped to about 383,000 on Thursday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. — NNN-XINHUA
