The New York City Board of Health is slated to approve the reopening of 3,000 childcare centers across the five boroughs on July 13th, as the city continues to pull back on restrictions implemented during the coronavirus outbreak, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this morning.
There’s been a lot of conversation between the Board of Health and our Health Department and the childcare providers over recent weeks and they are ready to go,†de Blasio said during a press conference.
Along with the 125 city childcare centers that have been operating since April solely for children of essential workers, Regional Enrichment Centers overseen by New York City's Department of Education have been open for children of essential workers as well.
Oxiris Barbot, and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation CEO, Dr.
But up until last week, with the examination of the two Lysol products, the agency had only been vetting surface disinfectant products that either demonstrated that they could kill other viruses, not the specific coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
"Lysol is currently testing the efficacy of other disinfectant products in the brand portfolio," Ferran Rousaud, marketing director for Lysol, said in a statement.
The comments alarmed public health experts and spurred health authorities and Lysol's parent company to issue warnings that cleaning products should never be ingested.
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