{"id":24964,"date":"2020-10-01T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=24964"},"modified":"2020-10-01T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:20:51","slug":"nyc-will-fine-people-who-dont-wear-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=24964","title":{"rendered":"NYC Will Fine People Who Don&#8217;t Wear Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"News_list_rdr art\">\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<h3>Latest Prevention &amp; Wellness News<\/h3>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; People in New York City who aren&#8217;t wearing a mask will first be offered one, and then fined if they still refuse to cover their face, Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>His warning comes as the city&#8217;s positive test rate for the new coronavirus went above 3% for the first time in months, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal of course is to give everyone a free face mask and get them to wear one,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to fine people. If we have to, we will. And that will be starting on a large scale today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s positive test rate is 3.25%, but the seven-day rolling average is 1.38%, according to de Blasio. Indoor dining will be reassessed if that average exceeds 2%, and public schools will be closed if it rises above 3%, the city has said, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=247309\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Latest Prevention &amp; Wellness News &#13; WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; People in New York City who aren&#8217;t wearing a mask will first be offered one, and then fined if they still refuse to cover their face, Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. His warning comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1601354401_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}