Governor Cuomo held his daily Coronavirus briefing in Syracuse today, he again talked about the 2 points that they need to follow closely:
(Cuomo 4-28-20)
The Governor also said that nothing should be re-opened that goes against the CDC guidelines:
(Cuomo CDC)
The state now has about 295,106 cases of the Coronavirus, the number of new cases was below 1000 for the first time in weeks, the number of people who died Monday was 335, bring the state death toll to 17,638.
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Delays are continuing to bog down the state unemployment & pandemic unemployment responses to those who found themselves out of work in the last 7 weeks, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa explains:
(Melissa DeRosa 4-28-20)
DeRosa said that the state labor department had to streamline & reconfigure their website about a week & a half ago after the system crashed due to the extreme number of calls & logins; there are still about 400,000 people that the state needs to get checks out to.
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Chenango County Public Health announced Tuesday that they are up to 95 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus, 8 people are hospitalized, 63 have recovered, 3 have died, and 97 are quarantined.
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The Otsego County Department of Health announced today that they have 3 new cases reported of the Coronavirus, giving them a total of 61 cases. 3 people are hospitalized, 46 have recovered from the illness, and there have been 4 deaths,
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State Police arrested 33 year old Patrick Kain of Norwich for 1st degree sexual abuse, using a child in a sexual performance & possessing a sexual performance. Kain is accused of sexually abusing a 5 year old girl & recording it on his cell phone; he then accidentally left the phone in another person’s car. Kain has been charged in Federal Court with sexual exploitation of a child, he is also a registered level 1 sex offender from a previous conviction, he is being held in the Chenango County Jail pending additional court action.
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US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is proposing the “Postal Banking Act” to try to save the United States Postal Service from being eliminated by the Trump Administration. Gillibrand said that with the Coronavirus Pandemic, more people than ever will need to mail in their ballots this year:
(Gillibrand 4-28-20)
The act would also re-establish the Postal Banking act, to allow the Postal service to perform basic banking functions & it would save thousands of Postal employee’s jobs.
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The SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Upstate District Office has scheduled a webinar for 1:00 pm today, to cover updates to the Paycheck Protection Program and SBA’s Covid-19 relief efforts for small businesses. This webinar is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The event can only be viewed online at teams.microsoft.com, and voice questions will not be available, questions can be submitted in advance to Syracuse.DistrictOffice@sba.gov. Live questions via the event chat will also be available.
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Governor Cuomo announced that a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site is coming to Broome County shortly. A site has not yet been announced, Testing would be done by appointment only, by calling 888-364-3065, or at www.covid19screening.health.ny.gov. Broome County currently has 262 positive Coronavirus cases, with 19 deaths, 134 recoveries with 255 in quarantine.
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Delaware County is reporting one new case of COVID-19, which was transferred to the county of residence of the patient. There are 69 confirmed positive cases, 29 people under mandatory quarantine and 1 person under precautionary quarantine, 11 confirmed cases have been transferred out of the county, 2 are in a hospital, 9 are isolated and recovering at home, 4 people are deceased and 43 have fully recovered and are no longer in isolation.
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