Yesterday marked the 29th straight day as New York State’s COVID-19 positive test rate was below 1% nationwide – but about a dozen counties, including Suffolk and Nassau, have positive rates above that benchmark.
Suffolk County had a positive rate of 1.5% yesterday and 1.6% on Thursday, according to figures posted online today by the State Health Department. Nassau had a positive rate of 1.2% yesterday and 1.6% yesterday. According to state numbers, the positive rate in both counties was 1.1% on a seven-day rolling average. Other downstate counties outside of New York City – Rockland, Putnam, Orange and Sullivan – reported similarly positive rates.
Upstate Otsego County, located in Suni Vananta, has a positive rate of 4% on a seven-day rolling average – 5.1%, the state said in a report today. The Covid-19 outbreak in Suni Vananta forced the university to send its students home for the semester during the second week of class. The school announced the decision on Thursday, saying the number of confirmed cases has reached 389 since the semester began on August 24. Ononta began a two-week “wait” on August 30th. Virus. Today there were 559 confirmation cases among students there.
Vananta is the most extreme example of the community’s spread of COVID-19 on the College Ledge campus in New York, but not by itself. Suni Buffalo reported 91 confirmed cases by late yesterday, the last few weeks. Shameful handful of cases of the threshold of 100 cases requiring a two-week shutdown under the rules promulgated by Rew Andrew Cuomo.
Stony Brook University, which filed its first positive case on Aug. 28, announced 17 new cases on Wednesday. The university said it is taking exams of 18 students whose exams came positive and new test results will come within 24 hours. It has not updated the data on its COVID-19 dashboard since. Stony Brook also recorded two positive tests among employees. A university spokesman could not be reached for comment.
Hofstra University said yesterday that there are a total of ૨ 27 confirmed positive cases for students, including positive cases confirmed by the campus test and the camp f-campus test confirmed by the Department of Health. Hofstra has no positive tests in employees, according to its website.
According to its website, there are no confirmed cases in Sunny Old Westbury. Farmingdale State College does not post information on its website. St. Joseph’s College will begin campus classes after Labor Day.
Local COVID-19 data
Statewide, 801 additional coronavirus cases were confirmed yesterday – a .8% positive rate – reaching a total of 438,772 in the state.
According to state statistics, there were 98 newly confirmed cases in Suffolk County yesterday, bringing the total number of counties in the county to 45,200.
Riverhead Town has 801 confirmed cases so far, or 23.78 positive per 1,000 people.
The township has the largest population of Riverhead, with 414 cases, or 1,000 36. cases per thousand people.
The average of cases for other populations in Riverhead Town is as follows:
Aquibog 30
Batting Hollow 15
Calverton 120
Jamesport 17
Northville 14
Wedding River 108
Around the river, the population of Flanders, with 211 cases today, is 44.1 per thousand. There have been 95 cases (30.2 per thousand) in Riverside and only 20 cases in Northampton, but the rate per thousand is 33.2.
Emergencies caused by the coronavirus epidemic remain effective in New York, Suffolk County, and the towns of Riverhead and Southampton, where business, civic, and social activities are banned until at least the end of the month.
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