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Scarred by the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the nation, New York City gradually began reopening Monday in a turning point in the three-month-long crisis and a life-and-death test of the city's discipline. "This is the place where it was going to be the hardest to make a comeback, and yet

NEW YORK — Scarred by the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the nation, New York City gradually began reopening Monday in a turning point in the three-month-long crisis and a life-and-death test of the city's discipline.

But he warned the city against letting its guard down and jeopardizing its hard-won progress against the virus:"Let’s hold onto it. Let’s build on it.” At its peak, the scourge killed more than 500 people a day in New York City in early to mid-April. At the end of last week, the number of deaths per day had dropped into the single digits.

Story continuesEdwin Arce thinks the city can regroup. A chef at a Manhattan restaurant, he was heartened to see more customers than expected when it reopened for takeout and delivery. New York City, population 8.3 million, has already reawakened somewhat as warm weather drew people outdoors, more restaurants offered carryout service, and thousands of people marched in protest over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Yet Dr. Ian Lipkin, a Columbia University epidemiologist who had COVID-19 himself in March, is concerned the virus might spread at the protests following Floyd's May 25 death. And the virus's toll — in lives, despair and exhaustion — weighs on him: “It’s very difficult to see how we recover.”

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