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This story told through Michael Gormley, John Hildebrand, Bart Jones, John Valenti and Olivia Winslow and written through Jones.
Two other Long Island schools were added monday to those that temporarily closed due to COVID-19 cases, and Harborfields High School moved to “full distance learning” on Monday and Tuesday and a school in Port Washington pronounced its cancellation in person. Tuesday class.
Harborfields’ announcement, made on Twitter on the school district’s official account sunday night and in a letter to local families, said a student tested positive for COVID-19.
The superintendent of schools, Francesco Ianni, wrote that “the Suffolk Department of Health promptly touched to launch a touch-finding investigation. If you think you are a close contact, someone will contact you. “
In Port Washington, a student at Carrie Palmer Weber High School took the test and the district notified the Nassau County Department of Health to “open a contact search investigation,” the school’s principal, Michael J. Hynes, in a letter to the local families.
Tuesday will be closed by “disinfection and cleaning protocols, and as a precaution,” Hynes wrote, and will stick to a “totally virtual training day. “
A third school, Woodland Middle School in the East Meadow district, told citizens in a letter that it was the temporary final component of construction for thorough cleaning after a student tested positive.
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In other developments, Cold Spring Harbor Junior/Senior High School reopened monday after the end last week when a student tested positive for COVID-19. Superintendent Robert C. Fenter announced Friday in a follow-up letter to parents that an investigation has shown “that there is no need for mandatory quarantine for students or as a result of contact at the school. “
The most recent school closures are a component of measures to stop face-to-face training in long island scattered districts, where students and staff tested positive for the first few weeks of school. As a component of these transitority closures, there has been no significant accumulation in the spread of COVID-19 in the region or state.
This trend continued with the news on Monday that the positivity rate for new instances remained low in the state. One patient died Sunday for COVID-19-related reasons, the lowest reported death number “since it began,” Gov. Andrew M said. a briefing Monday in Albany.
He praised the “spirit of community, the spirit of unity” of New Yorkers who, he said, “literally stored thousands of lives” in the state.
“. . . We will not avoid until that number is zero” for the death toll, Cuomo added, saying that “this is in fact an ordinary achievement that New Yorkers have achieved” compared to other states and parts of the world. , where the virus has resurfaced after the first waves.
Of the 58319 effects across the state on Sunday, 573 people, or 0. 98%, were positive, Cuomo said on Monday.
The number of new COVID-19 cases showed Sunday 41 in Nassau County, 48 in Suffolk County and 260 in New York, Cuomo said. Positive infection point is 0. 9% on Long Island and 1% on New York.
However, of the 18 corporations cited over the weekend for violating state law to curb the spread of coronavirus, thirteen were on Long Island, Cuomo said, including 8 in Nassau County and five in Suffolk County.
“Overall, compliance has come a long way,” Cuomo said, there are still some “rotten apples. “
He added that “bars, universities, us with a problem. “
State Liquor Authority and state police inspected more than 4,000 institutions over the weekend, he said.
A staff member at Eastport-South Manor Junior-Senior High School tested positive for COVID-19, district officials said in a letter to parents on Sunday, but the school did not close on Monday because the worker is not assigned to elegance and is not in normal condition. extended contact with students.
Smithtown Central School District Superintendent Mark Secaur announced that a Smithtown High School West student tested positive, but constructions were not closed. Secaur stated that the student was the last to be built on September 11 and that touch-seeking efforts had been “launched”.
Islip Public Schools announced Friday that a sherwood Elementary School student tested positive. In a letter to parents, Superintendent Ellen Semel said the student was the last to build the elementary school on September 15.
The district is asking anyone who is in contact with the un named student, adding on the school bus, to be quarantined for 14 days, meaning that everyone interested in the student’s elegance asked not to return to construction until September 30.
County leader Laura Curran said Monday that Nassau continued to a low point of coronavirus infections, with a “positive dynamic” appearing when the fall began.
“I think we’ve shown that it can be reopened in a smart way,” he said. “However, we know that [what] comes next is not guaranteed; some countries that first controlled the involvement of the virus, such as Spain and Israel, are now experiencing painful waves. “
Meanwhile, Court of Appeals President Janet DiFiore said Monday that the state’s justice formula is preparing to resume face-to-face operations in each county, adding “non-essential issues,” but said the path to the overall number of cases before the long and uncertain COVID-19 outbreak.
“Despite the progress made through our judges and professional staff in the resumption and expansion of in-person operations, we recognize that it will still take a long time, if ever, before we can return to an appearance of density and in-person activity that took a stand in our courts before the pandemic,” DiFiore told lawyers and judges in his speech.
She said the courts were working to expand her virtual capacity, moving from the Skype for Business video conferencing formula to Microsoft Teams. He said the new software would be more suitable for the submission of documents, as well as for the presentation of procedures and personal messages between lawyers and judges.
In addition, pilot systems are being implemented in the courtrooms, and one was added in Suffolk County that has been modernized to prevent the spread of the virus.
“As soon as we are with the protection and effectiveness of civilian pilots, the next step will be to conduct our first user trial before a criminal jury in New York,” DiFiore said.
Also Monday, Cuomo extended the state moratorium on coronavirus-related deportations and advertising seizures for a month until October 20.
The measure extends existing protections for advertising tenants and loan borrowers due to the monetary charge to business owners, adding retail institutions and restaurants as a result of the pandemic’s monetary charge.
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Bart Jones covers on Newsday, where he has worked since 2000, and is a former foreign correspondent for the Associated Press in Venezuela.
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