Governments this week started announcing they would require vaccination, and at the same time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its May guidance on masks, stating that, because of the Delta variant, people living in an area of substantial or high transmission should mask indoors in public.

My brother-in-law, who lives in Vietnam, urgently wants to get vaccinated against COVID-19 — but can’t. Vaccine in Vietnam is hard to come by as it is in many nations around the world.

On Tuesday evening, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a statement saying, We are reviewing the CDC’s new recommendations closely in consultation with federal and state health experts.”

Governor Andrew Cuomo said of the newly allocated $15 million, “Only about 6.7 percent of the state has new positive cases above the average and the vaccination rate below the state average. So we’re focusing on those 117 ZIP codes.”

Enterprise editor Melissa Hale-Spencer won the Golden Quill award from the International Society of Weekly Newspaper editors for her Feb.

The Capital Region, of which Albany County is a part, has the highest COVID-19 infection rate of any of the state’s 10 regions.

We urge the gatekeepers in Guilderland to open their hearts.

State University of New York College Oneonta has announced students achieving honors for the spring 2021 semester.
 

These local students were named to the Provost's List with a grade-point average of 4.0:

— Mira DelSignore of Slingerlands, majoring in psychology;