The authorities of New York dispersed this weekend several illegal parties to celebrate the Super Bowl which were attended by a total of more than 600 people and who defied the recommendations to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
“Many of the partygoers were not wearing masks, social distancing was not possible and most were drinking alcohol,” Sheriff Joseph Fucito told local NBC.
The city sheriff’s office, which is responsible for enforcing state restrictions, detained seven people on Sunday after breaking into at least three massive clandestine parties that were taking place in nightclubs in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens.
The Super Bowl It is quite a sporting and social event in the United States and is usually accompanied by social gatherings and parties, but the country’s main epidemiologist, Anthony Fauci, had warned of the danger of ending up generating “super contagious events” in homes.
Those attending these pre-SuperBowl parties went beyond their homes, with more than 230 people gathered inside a private motorcycle club in Brooklyn, according to the authority on its Twitter account, which reported violations of sanitary regulations. and emergency.
The agents also dispersed a party in the same district with more than 200 people, from which three promoters were arrested, and another in Queens with more than 165 people in which they arrested an employee, all of them operating without a license to sell alcohol .
The state of New York, which was the epicenter of the pandemic last spring and continues to be the US area with the most deaths from COVID-19, has regulations in place that prevent the opening of nightclubs and restrictions on establishments that sell alcohol.
