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GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Sunday, 4/26

Upstate May See

Reopening After

5/15, Cuomo Says

He Specifies Mohawk Valley,

Including Otsego, As One Of 1st

ALBANY – In today's briefing, Governor Cuomo said Upstate regions – including Otsego County's – may reopen May 15 if individual regions experience 14 days of declining coronarivus infection rates at that time.

In response to a question, he specified "Central New York, the North Country, the Mohawk Valley" as the region's likely to be the first come out of the shutdown that began when President Trump and Cuomo declared states of emergency on March 13.






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