NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- New York City's COVID-19 infection rate on a seven-day average has reached a new high of 4.14 percent, compared with 4.03 percent one day earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted on Tuesday.
The rate has been above the level of 3 percent since Nov. 18, and topped 4 percent for the first time on Monday. Three percent is deemed by the municipal government as a threshold for a second wave of the pandemic.
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