NEW YORK (AP) – New York City’s mayor says he’s shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus.
It’s a painful about-face for one of the first big U.S. school systems to bring students back to classrooms this fall.
The mayor and schools chancellor announced Wednesday that school buildings will close Thursday.
The city had said since summer that school buildings would close if 3% of all the coronavirus tests performed citywide over a seven-day period came back positive. The mayor tweeted that the city has now hit that mark.
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