So far the government has sought to keep the economy open by combining mass rapid testing with a legal requirement for five days of self-isolation, an approach that enabled the country to navigate the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
Judge Thomas Rademaker of New York State Supreme Court on Long Island manga [Oregairu.net] ruled on Monday that the governor overstepped her authority in imposing a rule that needed to have been passed by the state legislature.
Above, students leave the New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math (NEST+m) school in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan on December 21 A Long Island judge ruled on Monday that Hochul's law was 'void and unenforceable', but on Tuesday an appeals judge overrode that decision.