Bars and restaurants must close to on-premises patrons at 10pm.
The move outraged some critics, including one New York City councilman who defiantly declared that he would not follow the governor’s rules.
“I’ll be having more than 10 ppl at my house on Thanksgiving,” Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican who is the council’s minority whip, said in a tweet Wednesday.
“Some family will come from (gasp!) New Jersey. Kids will see their grandparents, cousins will play in the yard, sis in law will bring strawberry rhubarb pie, & a turkey will be overcooked.”
New York’s seven-day average rate of coronavirus tests coming back positive has hit 2.52 per cent.
If that figure reaches 3 per cent, schools are expected to close again.
Texas has become the first state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, although California is closing in on that mark.
Texas, the second-most populous state, has recorded 1.02 million coronavirus cases more than 19,000 deaths since the outbreak began in early March, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
California, the most populous state, has logged more than 995,000 cases.
The US has recorded over 240,000 deaths and more than 10.3 million confirmed infections, with new cases soaring to all-time highs of well over 120,000 per day over the past week.
Health experts have blamed the increase in part on the onset of cold weather and growing frustration with mask-wearing and other precautions.
A month ago, the US was seeing about 730 COVID-19 deaths per day on average; that has now surpassed 970.
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