Eric Adams, N.Y.C.’s mayor, tests positive for the coronavirus.

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York Metropolis, examined constructive for the coronavirus on Sunday, his a centesimal day in workplace, the mayor’s workplace introduced.

Mr. Adams has been centered on reopening town after circumstances rose through the Omicron surge over the winter. Circumstances just lately began to rise once more, fueled by the BA.2 variant.

The mayor, 61, awoke with a raspy voice on Sunday and examined unfavourable on a fast take a look at earlier than testing constructive on a P.C.R. take a look at, stated Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the mayor. Mr. Adams had no different signs and is isolating and canceling the remainder of his public occasions for the week, Mr. Levy stated.

The mayor is absolutely vaccinated, Mr. Levy stated, and has had one booster shot.

Mr. Adams, who stated final week that he takes an at-home fast take a look at day by day, had visited Albany, the state capital, on Saturday for a gathering with lawmakers. He has additionally been holding a sequence of interviews to advertise his first 100 days in workplace.

“He’s additionally going to right away start taking the antiviral medicines supplied without spending a dime to New York Metropolis residents and encourages all New Yorkers eligible for these medicines to take them as properly,” Mr. Levy stated in a press release. He stated Mr. Adams’s physician stated he certified for the medicines and beneficial them.

It’s troublesome to know precisely how or when somebody was uncovered to and contaminated with the virus. Mr. Adams attended the Gridiron Membership dinner in Washington final weekend, after which dozens of attendees have examined constructive.

Mayor Adams has worn a masks at some latest occasions however at the same time as circumstances rose within the metropolis, he has not incessantly worn a masks at others, together with after he attended the Gridiron dinner and lots of different attendees stated they’d examined constructive.

He wrote a e book about how he came upon he had sort 2 diabetes in 2016 after which misplaced 30 kilos and stated he reversed his diabetes by altering his weight loss program. He speaks usually about his principally vegan weight loss program, meditation and his health routine. Diabetes can add to the danger of getting critical sickness from Covid partly as a result of diabetes impairs the immune system.

In an interview on Wednesday at Metropolis Corridor, Mr. Adams stated he had by no means examined constructive for the virus earlier than regardless of retaining a busy public schedule during the last two years.

“I’ve by no means had a constructive analysis,” Mr. Adams stated. “I’ve felt good and I haven’t felt the signs, and I’m round folks on a regular basis — even within the coronary heart of Covid. I used to be at floor zero. For no matter cause, I feel it’s a mixture of my consuming way of life, and a few luck perhaps concerned however no, I by no means had it.”