translated from Spanish: New York announced the closure of public schools due to an increase in cases

For more than seven consecutive days, New York City recorded a positivity rate of more than 3%, a number that represents the limit for enabling face-to-face education or not. Upon overcoming, Richard Carranza, the chancellor of NYC’s public schools, officialized the closure of all publicly run schools in the city. And while these closures will be temporary, schools will not automatically reopen at the time the seven-day positivity rate falls below 3% again.
“All students who were learning in school buildings part of the week will move on to remote learning every day,” the educational institution clarified through an official statement. In addition, in a thread posted on the official Twitter account, they clarified that families who need it, will be able to go to retire to schools free of charge for their children.

☑️ FREE MEALS: All families can continue to go to any school building (9am-12pm on weekdays) to pick up three free grab-and-go meals. No identification or registration is necessary. Halal and kosher meals are available at some sites. Learn more: https://t.co/ZOQdtTFMTQ. — NYC Public Schools (@NYCSchools)
November 18, 2020

Today, New York City is the epicenter of the virus in the state of the same name with a total of 290,018 since the start of the pandemic (1,940 recorded in the last day) and 24,146 total fatalities (10 in the last 24 hours).

Original source in Spanish