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Hotel officials say de Blasio's order won't impact them much because most of the city's 300 hotels aren't accepting tourists anyway.
"There's no business," said Vijay Dandapani, president of the Hotel Association of New York. "It's like we are a comatose patient."
Dandapani says the hotels that are open for tourism are mostly empty, filling up well less than 10 percent of their available rooms.
How much longer will the drought last? Some states have made marked improvement in recent weeks -- or at least slowed the growth of cases -- but seven states plus Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are still experiencing a percentage increase in COVID cases over the past 14 days, according to NBC News. Sixteen states and Washington D.C. are seeing a plateau in cases and 26 states are seeing some type of percentage decrease.
New York City has consistently seen daily positivity rates around 1 percent; statewide, that low infection rate or lower has been sustained for 11 straight days.
New York continues to report its lowest virus hospitalization and ICU numbers since the middle of March; New Jersey has reduced its transmission rate back near 1.0 after experiencing a party-linked uptick in infection rate last month. The signs of improvement are clearly evident, moving Cuomo to OK the return of gyms and museums in New York as early as next week following months-long closure.
New York City residents will have to wait a bit longer than Monday before they get to resume workouts in indoor fitness centers, though. Cuomo says all gyms must be inspected by individual localities prior to reopening. There are a glut of those in the five boroughs, and the mayor's office is focused on inspecting and preparing the city's 1,800 school buildings for students' safe return in September.
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