NYC hits new COVID low, as de Blasio offers more vax giveaways

New York City has hit another COVID-19 low, with the city dropping to below 0.6 percent positivity rate over the last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday, as he lured more Big Apple residents to get jabbed with prizes.

“We have the lowest COVID positivity on record,” de Blasio said of the city’s .59 percent positivity on the seven-day average. “Every additional dose makes us safer, everybody who gets fully vaccinated makes us safer,” he added during his daily morning press conference. “We keep driving back COVID because people continue to get vaccinated and it’s having more and more of an impact.”