NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- New York City's COVID-19 infection rate on a seven-day average went down to 5 percent, compared with 5.43 percent one day earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted on Saturday.
The rate topped 3 percent on Nov. 18 and has remained above the level ever since. It topped 4 percent for the first time on Monday and then surpassed 5 percent on Thursday. Three percent is deemed by the municipal government as a threshold for a second wave of the pandemic.
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