Progress has been made in reducing an increase in coronavirus cases in the Five Towns area, Nassau County officials said Tuesday at the opening of a new COVID-19 rapid driving control in the community.
The infection rate in Lawrence and Inwood has increased from seven times to 4 times the county average of about 1 percent, there has been a slight increase in cases in Woodmere, authorities said.
“It’s a bit of a worrying place,” Nassau County Director Laura Curran told reporters when she announced the publication of the new driving control at the Five Towns Community Center in partnership with Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside.
Parts of the five cities have been included in the New York State Cluster Action Initiative to engage COVID-19 hotspots in Brooklyn, Rockland and Orange counties, which are subject to the strictest regulations and have been marked as red zones through fitness officials.
Buffers around target communities bleed along the New York line in southwest Nassau, with less stringent controls in orange spaces like parts of Lawrence and Inwood, and yellow spaces like Cedarhurst. Areas will most likely be replaced as hot spot infection rates update.
“We are moving in the right direction,” said Dr. Lawrence Eisenstein, Nassau’s fitness commissioner, noting that rates have reached a plateau. “We believe the transmission rate will be lower than it is now. “
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