While New York’s Andrew Cuomo is working with the governors of neighboring states to set up a council to restore the economy and get people back to work, Albany County is stressing non-essential workers still need to stay home for now.

ALBANY COUNTY — The county’s health department wants to reach anyone who shopped at M&M Variety from March 31 through April 8 during the hours of 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The store is located at 108 Lark Street in Albany.

This is part of the department’s efforts to track anyone who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

Advice travels fast during a panic. But experts say that it’s important to consult with doctors before treating suspected or confirmed COVID-19 symptoms at home.

Medical offices are taking extraordinary steps to ensure patients’ safety during the present crisis, but strict in-house sanitation procedures and loosened regulations on telemedicine are not fully protecting healthcare providers from economic loss as they lose patients and cancel nonessential appointments to focus on critical care.

The governor on Easter morning was at the Pathways Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Niskayuna, returning ventilators that had been loaned.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York State is ramping up antibody testing, a key component of any plan to reopen the economy.

The state is currently conducting 300 antibody tests per day, and is on track to conduct 1,000 per day by next Friday, and 2,000 per day by the following week, he said.

“We talk a lot at United Way about how people in our community are one bad day away from being in serious financial straits but no one really anticipated this collective bad day we all go through together,” said Peter Gannon, president and chief executive officer of United Way of the Greater Capital Region. “But we are getting through it.”

The county sheriff’s office has made no arrests for violations of the governor’s pause order. Also, an unused wing of the county jail will soon house homeless people.

About 10 percent of Albany County residents currently being tested for COVID-19 have the disease.

ALBANY — Albany Medical Center is among the first hospitals in the country to obtain Food and Drug Administration approval to use convalescent blood-plasma therapy to experimentally treat critically ill patients who are infected with COVID-19.