{"id":1147561,"date":"2021-12-23T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1147561"},"modified":"2021-12-23T18:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:50:01","slug":"times-square-new-years-celebration-attendees-must-be-vaccinated-wear-masks-social-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/times-square-new-years-celebration-attendees-must-be-vaccinated-wear-masks-social-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square New Year\u2019s Celebration Attendees Must Be Vaccinated, Wear Masks, Social Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftimes-square-new-years-celebration-attendees-must-be-vaccinated-wear-masks-social-distance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1147561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237355566-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Mask wearing and social distancing will be a must for attendees of this year\u2019s&nbsp;Times Square New Year\u2019s Eve celebration in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/23\/new-york-will-require-masks-and-social-distancing-at-times-square-new-years-celebration.html\">CNBC<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Usually, there are 58,000 people allowed in viewing areas, the mayor\u2019s office said. This year, there will be just about 15,000 people allowed. Also, visitors will not be allowed in until 3 p.m., much later than previous years. The new requirements are in addition to a vaccination requirement that was already in place for almost all attendees over the age of five-years-old. [\u2026] The announcement came as New York City has seen rising Covid cases and positivity rates largely attributed to the omicron variant. Omicron is highly transmissible but studies have shown it is less severe than other variants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot to celebrate and these additional safety measures will keep the fully vaccinated crowd safe and healthy as we ring in the New Year,\u201d De Blasio said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Times Square Alliance, the organization that leads preparations for the ball drop, said it will require proof of full vaccination against the coronavirus for most attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that vaccination is the key and we know boosters are particularly effective against omicron. Our health care leaders have been abundantly clear about that,\u201d the mayor stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe focus, obviously, every day on the Covid crisis, on the challenge of omicron and how we overcome it, and I\u2019m very confident the city will overcome it. In fact, it looks like it\u2019s going to be a very brief period \u2014 intense and challenging \u2014 but very brief, and we have a lot of tools to fight back,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>More details to follow.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mask wearing and social distancing will be a must for attendees of this year\u2019s\u00a0Times Square New Year\u2019s Eve celebration in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Thursday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}