GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Sunday, 4/26 Upstate May See Reopening After 5/15, Cuomo Says He Specifies Mohawk Valley, Including Otsego, As One Of 1st ALBANY – In today’s briefing, Governor Cuomo said Upstate regions – including Otsego County’s – may reopen May 15 if individual regions experience 14 days of declining coronarivus infection rates at that time. In response to a question, he specified “Central New York, the North Country, the Mohawk Valley” as the region’s likely to be the first come…
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GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Saturday, 4/25 Cuomo Allows Pharmacies To Administer COVID Tests ALBANY – At today’s briefing, Governor Cuomo announced he will allow pharmacists to test for COVID-19. This action will unlock a network of over 5,000 pharmacies as COVID-19 testing locations and help the state build a collection network to meet laboratory capacity and increase overall testing capacity.…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Friday, 4/24 Absentee Ballots Issued To All New York Voters ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today said he will direct the state Board of Elections to automatically mail every New Yorker a postage-paid application for an absentee ballot. Earlier this month, he issued an executive order allowing all New Yorkers to vote absentee in the June 23 primary In his daily 11:30 a.m. briefing, the governor also said state revenues are expected to decline 14 percent, or $13.3 billion,…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Thursday, 4/23 Cuomo: 13.9% Of New Yorkers Immune To COVID-19 Threat ALBANY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced Phase One of the state’s antibody testing survey found 13.9 percent of New Yorkers have COVID-19 antibodies, and are thus immune to the virus. The survey developed a baseline infection rate by testing 3,000 people at grocery stores and other box stores over two days in 19 counties and 40 localities across the state. The governor also announced:…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Sunday, 4/19 State Ramps Up Antibody Testing It’s Prelude To Going Back To Work ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today announced the state Department of Health will begin to conduct a statewide antibody testing survey tomorrow, which he called the most aggressive such program in the U.S. Large-scale antibody testing will help determine the percentage of the population that is now immune to the virus, allowing more individuals to safely return to work.…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, TUESDAY, 4/14 Pace Of Reopening Key To Ensuring CORONA Doesn’t Get A Rebound GOVERNOR CUOMO AT TODAY’S BRIEFING: “Everybody’s anxious to reopen. … People need to get back to work. … The worst scenario would be if we did all of this, we got that number down, everybody went to extraordinary means and then we go to reopen and we reopen too fast or we reopen and there’s unanticipated consequences and we see that number go up again.”…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, SATURDAY, 4/11 Cuomo Provides Citizens Free Lawyers During Crisis ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today announced a partnership with the state Court System to create a pro bono network of volunteer lawyers to provide New Yorkers with free legal assistance. The idea is to handle a surge in legal matters resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic fallout.…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, THURSDAY, 4/9 Governor Issue Plea For Funeral Directors ALBANY – At today’s briefing, Governor Cuomo said he will issue an executive order to bring in additional funeral directors to help with the high number of deaths in the New York Metropolitan Area.…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, WEDNESDAY, 4/8 At Last, Trends Show COVID-19 May Be On Wane To Keep Decline Going, Governor Urges Citizens Not To Back-Slide ALBANY – At last, good news. Despite a record daily death toll. Governor Cuomo told New Yorkers at today’s briefing: “What we are doing is actually working and it’s making a difference … It is flattening the curve and we see that again today so far.” While New Yorkers must continue to be “rigorous” with social-distancing, hand-washing…
WATCH CUOMO’S DAILY NEWS BRIEFING Governor Seeking 1,000-Bed Overflow Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the state is scouting additional new sites for temporary hospitals, with a goal of having a 1,000-plus patient overflow facility in each New York City borough as well as Westchester, Rockland, Nassau and Suffolk counties. These new additions, together with the temporary hospitals that are being built at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and locations at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Old Westbury and the…