New York to ease COVID-19 lockdown

Three months after the pandemic brought life to a standstill, some offices and non-essential business will be allowed to partially reopen.

New York City is getting ready to loosen a number of coronavirus restrictions, three months after the pandemic brought life there to a standstill.

On Monday, some offices and non-essential business will be allowed to partially reopen, but the United Nations campus in New York will not be following suit.

Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor, James Bays, has more.