3 Sports Teams Held Parties That Started Outbreak, Morris Says

SUNY Leader Expects 'Ramp Up' In Cases

Mayor Gary Herzig, second from upper left, addresses tonight's first meeting of the Oneonta Control Room, a town-gown entity formed to oversee the local COVID-19 threat and assess the response. Two boxes below Herzig is SUNY Oneonta President Barbara Jean Morris; Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich is in the top row, second from right.

By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

ONEONTA – With 2,000 COVID-19 tests administered Sunday and today, SUNY Oneonta President Barbara Jean Morris warned the Oneonta Control Room to prepare for a "ramp-up" of positive tests during their first meeting over Zoom this evening.

"Obviously this came on fast and hard," she said. "We had a super-spreader event last weekend with three athletic teams who invited first-year students to a party, then those students came back to campus."

At present, 177 SUNY students have tested positive for the virus, prompting Chancellor Jim Malatras Sunday to close the campus for two weeks; 600 students were tested between Friday and Saturday, when tests were brought to campus.

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