A dramatic spike in coronavirus cases has prompted the Chairman of the City Council Health Committee to call for reinstatement of the indoor-mask mandate as was recently done in Los Angeles after a bigger surge there.
"The daily caseload in New York City has tripled in the past week to over 500 a day, almost overwhelmingly driven by the highly contagious Delta variant," Manhattan Councilman Mark Levine said during a July 19 phone interview.
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