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Officials are confident “that we have passed the peak and we are heading into a safer environment,” he said. The city remains in the high alert category, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel, according to Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, who said documented cases are down 26 percent since May 23. The move follows a previous false start, where the mayor announced a target date to lift the rules but opted to keep them in place when Covid cases were spiking - a rare exception to his general philosophy that the city should get back to normal and not “wallow in Covid.” As virus levels rose this spring, he declined to reimpose a broader indoor mask mandate or vaccine requirements for indoor dining and entertainment, despite guidelines under the city’s color-coded alert system that said he should do so during a high alert level. “Throughout the current wave, schools have remained the safest places for our children and beginning Monday, June 13, we will make masks optional for 2-4-year-old children in all early childhood settings.” The city is still recommending masks indoors for kids - and everyone else. “Cases are steadily falling,” Adams said yesterday.

The toddlers in question are still not eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine, but Adams said he’s moving ahead with scrapping the rules as the city’s latest virus wave has begun to dissipate. It’s one of the city’s last remaining pandemic rules still in place - until Monday - and has been a point of contention between Adams and a vocal group of parents opposed to the mandate in schools and day care centers. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced his latest rollback of Covid-19 restrictions: let the children under 5 go maskless.