Mayor Eric Adams has tested positive for COVID-19.
Reports reveal that on Monday, he was not feeling well and later tested positive for COVID-19. He canceled all of his in-person meetings, including a town hall on Brooklyn’s Underhill and Vanderbilt Avenue redesigns. Although he canceled his in-person meetings, however, he kept his virtual meetings.
Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy said that the mayor tested positive “a little while ago,” but he clarified that the positive test result came after he attended an event earlier that afternoon. Mayor Adams is still expected to receive a briefing after a recently thwarted terrorist attack on a Jewish Center in Brooklyn.
Adams previously tested positive t on his 100th day in office around the time when coronavirus cases were rising in New York City. This new result comes after Mayor Adams’ adminstration has been under a few investigations.
On Sunday, he visited two churches in Brooklyn, where he compared himself to Job, a figure from the Bible whose tragedy was a test of God’s faith. Over the summer, the number of coronavirus cases rose in New York due to a new variant of the virus infecting people who have some type of immunity.