Restrictions on some new York pandemic hot spots will be overturned even as the state plans to fight outbreaks in and around major cities in New York State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
With the numbers in some New York City hot spots, Brooklyn’s red zone, the maximum restriction of the 3 color-coded zones, will be reduced by 50%, as will the less restrictive yellow zone, Cuomo said.
Since early October, the Brooklyn Red Zone has noticed that positivity rates have risen from 5. 9% to 3. 1 percent, the governor said. Here is a map of the new areas.
In Queens, so-called micro-cluster restrictions will be lifted in Far Rockaway.
Planned movements for the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse regions the state’s conversion strategy as COVID-19 becomes a widespread challenge beyond New York, once the epicenter of the pandemic.
“Overall, north of New York State is doing better than northern New York State, which is a total change from the first coVID,” Cuomo said at a conference call.
Cuomo said his administration would talk to elected officials in parts of up-and-coming New York, namely Buffalo and the spaces surrounding Erie County, Rochester county and Monroe, and Syracuse County and Onondaga over the weekend to propose a micro-cluster strategy that may simply announce Monday.
The town of Port Chester, on the Connecticut border, will be subject to yellow zone restrictions, the governor said.
On Wednesday, New York City began asking residents of non-neighboring states to have a coronavirus checkup before and after arrival if they need to avoid a full 14-day quarantine. With the upcoming Thanksgiving season, Cuomo said Friday that he was expanding the National Guard. presence at airports and spoke with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about employing more New York City police officers to enforce the law.
“I need other people to know we’re serious,” he said.
It did not provide the main points on how travelers would be evaluated and their administration did not respond to emails requesting clarification.
Meanwhile, more than 1,600 voters who voted in a vote in New York’s Hudson Valley on Polling Day are asked to take a coronavirus test after a voting officer tested positive.
The employee stationed at the East Fishkill Community Center in Hopewell Junction announced the Dutchess County Department of Health Thursday night.
Investigators who had “sustained contact” with their inflamed colleague are quarantined and will be evaluated, he said.
On Tuesday, some 1,657 votes were cast, but only a fraction of the electorate interacted with the inflamed voting officer, and the electorate addressed other parts of the polling station in their constituency, county spokeswoman Colleen Pilius said Friday.
The fitness branch said the threat to the electorate was “minimal” because the inflamed voting officer wore a mask, maintained physical distance, and followed other precautions. However, Commissioner Dr. Anil Vaidian suggested to everyone who voted at the center of the network on Tuesday to be tested and alert to any symptoms of COVID-19.
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