New York Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for Covid on Monday, prompting him to cancel two scheduled events and stay away from the public eye. Federal investigation vortex around him and members of his inner circle.
The positive test result was confirmed by Fabian Levy, deputy mayor for communications, who said the mayor’s symptoms were mild. Mr. Adams made a scheduled appearance in Queens earlier in the day to discuss his administration’s flood-relief efforts. After he started feeling worse, he decided a Covid test was in order, Mr Levy said.
It was The second time Mr. Adams tested positive For a virus after assuming office.
Word of Mr. Adams’ infection came a day later He visited two churches in Brooklynwhere he compared himself to the biblical figure Job as he tried to rally his supporters amid threatening inquiries. damaged his ability To run the city.
Given Mr. Adams’ illness, Mr. Levy said, the mayor is unlikely to attend Wednesday’s ceremony to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers and killed more than 2,700 people.
The mayor was expected to hold his regular weekly news briefing on Tuesday, though it was unclear if he could do so from a remote setting.
Should he go ahead with the briefing, it will be his first since then A federal inquiry involving some of his top aides Last week when investigators found Edward A. The public erupted when the phones of Kaban, the police commissioner, as well as the first deputy mayor, the school chancellor and others were confiscated. Agents also searched the home of a consultant whose brothers, David C. Banks and Philip Banks III, the school’s chancellor and deputy mayor for public safety. (The mayor and his aides have not been charged with any crime.)
Canceled from the mayor’s Monday schedule were discussions with Jewish leaders and news outlets planned in advance of next month’s Jewish high holidays, as well as a community meeting on a controversial plan to redesign sections of Underhill and Vanderbilt avenues in Brooklyn to reduce car traffic. . Mr. Adams was still expected to attend the planned briefing, which, according to federal authorities, was a failed plot. Attack on the Jewish Center in Brooklyn.
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