Restrictions will take effect at 12:01 a. m. on Friday’s COVID-19 case teams and their surroundings in the eastern Ramapo domain of Rockland County.
Local leaders continued to express confusion Thursday about how regulations would apply and demanding legal situations continued to increase, adding the risk of prosecution through a local rabbi whose home was the target of a bloody machete attack in Hanukkah.
On Thursday night, the state introduced a “search” tool to locate addresses in areas. The Rockland County tool can be found here.
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Meanwhile, Rockland COVID-19 instances continue to increase. On Thursday, 4 county zip codes were indexed among the 20 most sensitive in the state with the percentage of positive tests for COVID-19 active in the last seven days.
Meanwhile, Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to criticize local governments for feeding the one that created the existing clusters.
“A useless government is hurting everyone. He does,” Cuomo said. “It’s less difficult at the time, in the long run, it hurts everyone. “
The governor said the groups at the top of New York, adding Brooklyn, Rockland, and Orange counties, are in spaces with giant Orthodox Jewish communities.
The governor noted that last spring, schools, adding yeshivas, and places of worship were destined to close as the pandemic broke out in New York.
“Remember the new rule, if you will, for the organization in the red zone, says the synagogue would have a maximum of 10 people,” said Cuomo, “who is a minian,” a 10-person school for classical Jewish worship. .
Referring to Orthodox Jewish leaders, Cuomo asked, “Why are you so disappointed with the existing rule when there is a past rule that is more dramatic?”
Then he answered his question: “Because the above regulations were never applied . . . And because they never applied. That’s why I’ve told you 57 times that local governments don’t comply with regulations. “
Ramapo Town manager Michael Specht, where most of Rockand’s law enforcement is located, returned a request for comment on Thursday.
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“A network giant follows the rules, ” said Cuomo, but there is still opposition.
“Remember, this is the first time we’ve had this conversation with members of this community,” Cuomo said, mentioning the measles outbreak that affected Rockland and Brooklyn from 2018 to 2019. “Same argument, same argument,” said about the fights. for adherence to measles vaccine.
Yossi Gestetner of Spring Valley, co-founder of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council, said the governor was to blame for a group.
“Governor Cuomo has spent months boasting that New York’s infection rate is less than 1%, but now 29 counties are in 1% or more and 10 counties in 2 percent or more,” Gestetner said. Or this ethnic organization is sick, advised. “
The “cluster action initiative” employs 3 zones with varying degrees of constraints. In Rockland and Orange counties, however, spaces have two layers:
Massive meetings are also prohibited. Sponsors of massive meetings that violate state fitness regulations may be fined $15,000.
The center of Rockland Domain stretches from College Road on the west side to Highway forty-five on the east; Route 59 south to Viola Road; and the northern border to Highway 306, via Grandview Avenue to New Hempstead Road.
The perimeter of the Rockland Red Zone is approximately 12. 5 miles. The yellow “attention” zone extends about a mile beyond those borders.
The county said the working group would come mainly from the New York State Police, the State Alcoholic Beverage Authority, and the staff of the state fitness branch.
The county said Thursday that four Inspectors from the Rockland County Department of Health had been trained and were in a position to participate in the Compliance Working Group.
The Rockland County Sheriff’s Office responded to requests for comment.
Spring Valley Village Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Millman said Thursday that the town awaits the main points of the state’s involvement in law enforcement in the area.
Among those who threatened to sue Monsey, Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, whose Synagogue Forshay Road, the Netzach Yisroel congregation, scene of a horrific machete attack at a Janukkah party last December, the Center for American Freedom, on Rottenberg’s behalf, sent the governor a letter threatening to sue the “cluster action initiative. “
After the fatal attack, Rottenberg was invited to give an invocation to Cuomo’s 2020 state speech.
Agudath Israel of America has already sued Cuomo for restrictions in the United States District Court in the Eastern District, which includes Brooklyn, claiming they make worship impossible.
Rivkie Feiner, a resident of Monsey, said Thursday that other people remained in the areas. “This leads to developing mistrust in government and developing anger within the network about how this is handled,” Feiner said. “
Meanwhile, Millman said, Spring Valley had reported and adored the rules.
Rockland County issued calls Thursday morning using its formula opposite 9-1-1 to inform citizens about the restrictions. These calls, which go to landlines, are first sent to red zone citizens and then sent to the county.
“Because of the ongoing COVID-1nine pandemic, Governor Cuomo has imposed more restrictions on parts of Rockland County. Businesses, schools, places of worship, and meetings will have to operate under these restrictions starting at 00:01 on Friday nine October. limited spaces and activities, stop at RocklandGov. com. “
Mobile phone users gained a message with a local alert formula used through FEMA. This message reads: “Your region is subject to more COVID restrictions. Visit RocklandGov. com for more details. “
County spokesman John Lyon said Thursday afternoon that traffic in rocklandgov. com had already increased to 3 times the average rate.
Some have criticized the calls, however, as they are directed to a network where the web is not widespread.
Feiner, however, said that automatic calls “were not the way to succeed or work with our community.
Cuomo said the state had stepped up control in hot spots, which showed a positive control rate of 5. 8% in the one areas. State-round, the positive control rate was 1. 26%, Cuomo said, and 1. 01% in hot spots. 6% of the state’s population.
The positive verification rate for the Hudson Middle East, which includes hot spots in Rockland and Orange counties, 2. 2%
Rockland County Positivity Rate for COVID-19 7. 2%, according to state knowledge published Thursday.
The following Rockland zip codes showed some of the rates of positive viral testing in the state:
Postcode spaces surround more than the location where the publication is located.
Since the pandemic was detected in Rockland last spring, 16,454 county citizens have been diagnosed with the virus.
There have been 679 COVID-related deaths in Rockland since the pandemic was documented in the region in March.
Nancy Cutler writes about People