New Yorkers are happy to return to normal life after being vaccinated against Covid-19. Photo: AP According to the AP news agency, starting May 19, New Yorkers and Americans who have received the Covid-19 vaccine can remove their masks in most situations and restaurants, shops, and gyms. Many other businesses can also reopen at full capacity if they make sure all patrons are vaccinated. This week, the subway will operate around the clock. The midnight curfew for bars and restaurants will end later this month. Broadways tickets are on sale again, although the shows won’t start until September. Now is the time for New York to shed the image of a city that was defeated by the virus last spring and bounce back, as it was featured on the latest cover of The New Yorker, US officials said. It was an image of a giant door that partially opened the horizon to let a ray of light in. Can New York go back to the way it was? “Probably 75%…It will definitely come back,” says Mark Kumar, 24, a personal trainer. However, Ameen Deen, 63, said: ‘Full sense of normalcy won’t come anytime soon. There are too many deaths, too much suffering and inequality.” Last spring, the largest city in the US was the deadliest coronavirus hotspot in the US with more than 21,000 deaths in just two months. Black patients of Hispanic descent have higher mortality rates than whites and Asian Americans. Photo: AP Hospitals are overflowing with patients and corpses. Cold trailers were used as makeshift morgues and tents were set up in Central Park as a makeshift hospital to treat Covid-19. The bustling streets of New York became quiet, making room for ambulance sirens and nighttime applause from the windows of paramedic apartments. After more than a year of uncertainty, closure and reopening, the city hopes vaccinations will make things better. To date, about 48% of New Yorkers have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. The number of deaths, infections and hospitalizations from Covid-19 has dropped sharply in recent weeks. Many parts of the US and the world are gradually returning to normal after the Covid-19 crisis, which has claimed the lives of 3.4 million people globally, including more than 587,000 in the US. . Las Vegas casinos are reopening at 100% capacity with no social distancing requirements. Disneyland in California also reopened late last month after shutting down for 400 days. Massachusetts also announced that all restrictions related to Covid-19 will end at the end of Memorial Day weekend. France also reopened yesterday, with the Eiffel Tower, cafes and cinemas, and the Louvre also welcoming visitors for the first time in months. Hoai Linh

Spaghetti grows on trees On April 1, 1997, the program Panorama The BBC (UK) reported that farmers in Switzerland have just had a bumper crop of spaghetti thanks to the good weather. There are many viewers in the UK who have been so relieved to believe and can’t help admiring that your country has bred this useful real species. In the news there was also a video showing Swiss farmers pulling down spaghetti threads from tree branches. Pi is redefined In early April 1998, lawmakers in Alabama (USA) decided to reduce the divine Pi in mathematics from 3.14159 … to 3 for simplicity. Naturally, this is a joke spread by an ordinary man named Mark Boslough. For some reason, rumors have spread far and many students and students have been celebrating. In fact, in 1897, the Indian legislature proposed to convert Pi to 3.2 for round but was unsuccessful. Effeil Tower is demolished On April 1, 1986, the French “national” newspaper, Le Parisien, reported that the front page of the French government decided to remove the Eiffeil tower from the center of Paris. After dismantling, the tower will be moved to and rebuilt at Disneyland Park. And the central land will be devoted to building a stadium to serve the 1992. This trick has caused many French people to have heart attacks and panic. Burger King launches a left-handed burger In April 1998, Burger King launched an advertising campaign for a new product: Hamburger for lefties. The composition is the same as usual but the composition arrangement will be 180 degrees reversed to accommodate left-handed people. This information instantly captivated and excited the left-handed association as I felt I was being cared for at last. So the “this is just a joke” correction of Burger King later made many customers disappointed. Google produces beverages Google is a company that loves to tease its customers by making April Fool’s jokes every year. The most famous of which is in 2005, the company announced that it was going to enter the beverage manufacturing field with a product called Google Gulp. Google advertises this drink to help increase intelligence and also have a healthy low-carb. In addition, the tech giant once tricked out products such as Google Romance – a matchmaking service, a Gmail Custom Time feature that could change the time to send emails back to the past or even five claims to have found. treasure pirate island. But on April Fool’s Day the only Google to tell the truth that it will provide 1GB of free storage for Gmail users, most people do not trust. Discovered life on the moon In 1835, sheets New York Sun has published a long article by famous astronomer John Herschel said his team had discovered life on the moon. The article details the life of flora and fauna there, such as herds of bison wandering the plains and blue unicorns living in the hills. With the reputation of astronomers, most readers believe and admire this great discovery. Big Ben Tower turned into electronic clock In 1980, the BBC reported that the symbol of London, the pride of Great Britain, was that the Big Ben tower would be renovated and transformed into an electronic clock to catch up with the new era. However, this joke did not bring joy to the station as expected because the BBC has been criticized for being so “long joking” that it has to officially apologize to the people. Thomas Edison invented the food-making machine Legendary scientist Thomas Edison was once a “victim” to deceive readers of the newspaper The Daily Graphic (USA) 1878. This newspaper reports that he invented an automatic food making machine. The machine can produce food and drinks from the raw materials of soil, water and air. The article describes both the mechanism of operation and the beliefs that it will solve the hunger for mankind. To the writer’s meticulousness, Thomas Edison sent a letter to the newsroom with only a few words “It was breathtaking.” However, he was not angry because at the bottom of the article, it was said that this was a joke, but many readers were too lazy to read it all, when reading the news about the invention, they were happy to send orders to the scientist. . Source: CNN