The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, has announced this Tuesday that calls to report the presence of rats in the city have dropped 20% in the last two months, after implementing new guidelines for the disposal and collection of garbage.

The new program was launched by the hand of the first “tsarina”, appointed last April, to combat the plague of rats that invaded the streets of the city, which the mayor declared “enemy number one”.

This action minimizes the time that garbage is on the curb and increases the number of containers, which led, according to Adams, to a clear drop in calls from May to mid-July, when comparing the data with the year past

Adams further noted that rat sighting calls from the four mitigation zones, where the most action has been taken in response to rodent issues, decreased by 45 percent.

“It's still early, but these numbers show that what we're doing is working and that we're moving in the right direction,” said Adams, who recalled his “hatred of rats.”

The mayor also announced that the city will co-sponsor the first Day of Action against Rats, on August 12 in Harlem, to educate about caring for the streets, the trees or the management of garbage.