For the first time in new York because of the coronavirus began to close for the night subway

May 6, the pandemic coronavirus infection in new York city from 1:00 to 5:00 will be closed to passengers of the metro. During this period, in the subway of the city will be to carry out disinfection stations and cars. This news is reported by the administration of the metro on its official website.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK — MAY 06: Workers clean a station as the New York City subway system, the largest public transportation system in the nation, for nightly cleaning due to the continued spread of the coronavirus on May 06, 2020 in New York City. Following reports of homeless New Yorkers sleeping on the trains and the deaths of numerous subway employees, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided to close New York???s subway system from 1am to 5am every evening for a deep cleaning. New York continues to be the national center of the COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

At night, the subway trains will be engaged in the transportation of workers engaged in handling of different surfaces with special fluids.

For the carriage of passengers of new York city government has launched additional flights of 1000 buses.

Such actions have already responded to the newspaper the New York Times. Reporters noted that for all time of existence in the new York subway, he first began to close up for the night. The first subway was opened in 1904 and since then worked around the clock.

Since the introduction of the city’s quarantine regime, at night, the passenger volumes fell by 90%. Despite this, the new York subway every night used about 11 thousand passengers. Also at night the subway station and the night train became a place of refuge for the local homeless. Now, to carry out disinfection work, the police have to get from the subway these people.