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Following similar announcements by the governor of California and the mayor of New Orleans, New York City mayor Bill De Blasio has confirmed that large gatherings like sporting events and concerts will take a significant amount of time to return to the Big Apple calling them “one of the last things that we bring back online.”

“I’ve got to see in my city real steady progress, even to start to think about relaxing some of those social distancing standards even a little bit,” he told the press. “I want to get people back to work, of course. I want to get kids back to school. But I think it will take months to go through that whole sequence. And the last thing I want to do is gather 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 people in one place, that’s like the exact opposite of social distancing.”

For a full list of concerts and tours impacted by COVID-19 visit Relix.com/Coronavirus.