(CNN) New York City schools will remain open for in-person classes on Monday after health officials announced that the city's 7-day test positivity rate remained under the 3% threshold. The 7-day average test positivity rate, a measure of how many Covid-19 tests come back positive, was 2.57% as of Sunday morning, according to Bill Neidhardt, a spokesman for de Blasio. As part of negotiations with the teacher's union, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that schools would return to all remote teaching if the 7-day test positivity rate surpassed 3%. Over the past week, New York City has approached that feared 3% figure, and on Friday, the single-day positivity rate reached 3.09%. "Schools currently remain open, based on today's 7-day test positivity rate.

Source: CNN November 15, 2020 17:26 UTC