Governor Andrew announced a Cluster Action Initiative today to deal with COVID-19 hotspots in Brooklyn and Queens in New York City and in Rockland, Orange, and Broome counties.
“There could be a number of explanations for this,”Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said of a spike in COVID-19 for 10- to 19-year-olds, “but with many college campuses still operating and many children going back to school for in-person lessons, we need to continue to monitor this troubling trend and ensure parents are able to get their children tested.”
Statewide, 1.5 percent of Sunday’s COVID-19 test results were positive. For the Capital Region, of which Albany County is a part, the rate was 0.9 percent. Rapid testing will be used in places where the state has clusters of the disease.
Although Albany County has announced well over 100 COVID-19 cases related to the University at Albany in the past two weeks — the majority of its new cases — only cases of people working, living, or studying on campus are being counted toward the 100 that would have forced remote learning.
ALBANY COUNTY — As COVID-19 cases spike in the Midwest, Governor Andrew Cuomo joined with Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Esther Whitmer — both Democrats — to call on Congress to conduct an oversight investigation into the Republican Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
NEW SCOTLAND — Voorheesville sixth-grade parents were notified on Thursday afternoon that children would be learning from home for a second straight day.
“We have to be a model for our kids to deal with adversity in positive ways. That’s one of the greatest gifts we can give our kids,” said Altamont Elementary School Principal Peter Brabant who is optimistically running a school where two classes and a handful of teachers had to be quarantined.
In the first week of September, Albany County saw an increase of over 500 percent, compared to the same week last year, of residents needing help to buy food, leading the county executive to call for federal support.
