FILE PHOTO: A patient arrives outside Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., November 17, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's public school district, the largest in the United States, will halt in-person instruction starting Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced, citing soaring coronavirus infection rates there and across the country.
The mayor's decision, unveiled Wednesday on Twitter, came as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 neared a world record of a quarter-million lives lost, and as state and local officials nationwide moved to further restrict social gatherings and commercial activity to stem surging cases and hospitalizations heading into winter.
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