A barber sprays sanitiser before cutting a client’s hair on June 22 in Brooklyn.
Yury Ykubov, the owner, told AFP he had opened the shop six months prior, and negotiated with the landlord to make rent during the lockdown. In Manhattan, Sam Karalis, owner of The Windsor Florist, said his business was one of the lucky ones to have survived with the help of the government and his landlord.“If you can’t look at the stuff, you can’t really buy it,” he said.Statewide, Governor Andrew Cuomo reported 10 new deaths Sunday while the rate of positive test results has fallen to 1% – which has paved the way for incremental lifting of restrictions.
“Personally, I am seeing more patients who are in their 20s, 30s, and 40s with upper respiratory symptoms than I did before,” he told AFP.