GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Saturday, May 2 Cuomo: COVID ‘Predominantly An Issue In NYC’ Otsego Region’s Infection Rate 2.7%; Statewide, 12.3% QUEENS – Statewide, the Cuomo Administration has administered 15,000 test for antibodies, and has seen the coronavirus infection rate for the whole state drop from 14 percent to 12.3 percent, the governor said at today’s briefing. “Statewide, you see it’s basically flat,” he said. “This is predominantly an issue for New York City, then Long Island, then the northern suburbs, then the…
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GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Thursday, 4/30 Governor Details ‘Contact Tracing’ ALBANY – Governor Cuomo Wednesday announced that New York State’s contract-tracing program, headed up by former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg, will deploy 30 “contact tracers” per 100,000 people to areas with the highest rates of infection and regions that data shows could be the first to open. Planned in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut through the next flu season, program is expected to have 6,400 to 17,000 tracers statewide depending on the…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Wednesday, 4/29 So Far, Governor’s Outpatient Rules Not Eased Locally 35 Counties On List, But Not Otsego ALBANY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced 35 counties have been approved to resume elective outpatient treatments; however, Otsego – and, thus, Bassett Hospital – was not on the list. The governor previously announced that the state will allow elective outpatient treatments to resume in counties and hospitals without significant risk of COVID-19 surge in the near term.…
MAY 15, FACTORIES, CONSTRUCTION A GO BEGINNING OF THE END? Governor Opens Door To County’s Reopening By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com By May 18, Greg Ward hopes that Burt Rigid Box in the Town of Oneonta can bring its 44 employees back to work. “We’re in the process of putting plans in place,” said Ward, the plant’s operations manager. “We’ve got a crew in there deep cleaning now, and we’re constructing Plexiglas barriers for when people can’t exercise…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Tuesday, 4/27 Want To Open? Cuomo: Here’s How You Do It Governor Lists 12 Steps Toward Getting To The ‘New Normalcy’ ALBANY – Governor Cuomo Tuesday outlined 12 guidelines the Empire State’s regions must follow to move out of State of Emergency restrictions. In addition to the Mohawk Valley Economic Development Region, which includes Otsego County, they are Capital Region, Central New York, Finger Lakes, Mid-Hudson Valley, New York City, North Country, Long Island, Southern Tier and Western New…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Monday, April 27 Cuomo To Business: You Prepare Plans To Reopen May 15 Contractors, Manufacturers Told: Use Your Expertise To Ensure Safety ALBANY – In his daily briefing, Governor Cuomo underscored his intention to open, not all, but “many parts of the state” when the un-PAUSE deadline arrives May 15. “You know your business,” Cuomo said today, addressing construction firms and manufacturers that are first in line to reopen. “I don’t know your business … How do you incorporate…
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…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Saturday, 4/25 Cuomo Allows Pharmacies To Administer COVID Tests ALBANY – At today’s briefing, Governor Cuomo announced he will allow pharmacists to test for COVID-19. This action will unlock a network of over 5,000 pharmacies as COVID-19 testing locations and help the state build a collection network to meet laboratory capacity and increase overall testing capacity.…
ADMIN COMMITTEE ASKS: Let Counties Like Otsego Be 1st To Normalize Full Board May Act May 7 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The county board will be asked to ally itself with similar counties – Schoharie, Delaware and Chenango, for instance – to be first in line to phase out of the coronavirus shutdown, county Rep. Meg Kennedy, R-Hartwick/Milford/New Lisbon, said this evening. When it met earlier this month, Kennedy said, the county board’s Administration Committee,…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Friday, 4/24 Absentee Ballots Issued To All New York Voters ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today said he will direct the state Board of Elections to automatically mail every New Yorker a postage-paid application for an absentee ballot. Earlier this month, he issued an executive order allowing all New Yorkers to vote absentee in the June 23 primary In his daily 11:30 a.m. briefing, the governor also said state revenues are expected to decline 14 percent, or $13.3 billion,…