An appeals judge temporarily restored New York's mask mandate Tuesday, a day after a judge in a lower court ruled that Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration lacked the constitutional authority to order people to wear face coverings. Judge Robert Miller in New York City granted the state's ...
The number of active COVID-19 cases dropped dramatically in Chautauqua County last week. However, the number of new cases being confirmed locally remains high. The county Health Department on Wednesday reported 1,743 new cases for the week ending Jan. 15; for the week ending Jan. 8, the county recorded 1,855 new cases. The number of active cases, though, fell from 1,384 to 339 week over week. There were four new virus-related deaths reported last week. In addition, there were 31 people with the virus in local hospitals and 668 in quarantine. To date there have been 22,878 ...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Chautauqua County skyrocketed last week, with 265 cases reported on average each day. Between Jan. 2 and Jan. 8, the county Health Department reported 1,855 cases. That comes as at-home test kits have been widely more available locally. By comparison, there were 852 cases reported the week ending Jan. 1; 544 cases the week ending Dec. 25; 689 the week ending Dec. 18; 726 the week ending Dec. 11; and 872 the week ending Dec. 4. As of Saturday there were 1,384 active cases of the virus among county residents, an increase of nearly 500 from ...
Chautauqua County is distributing at home COVID-19 test kits and KN95 masks, which it received from New York state, to local municipalities. The municipalities that requested the test kits and masks will then organize their own distribution efforts to get the items out to their residents. This effort is part of Chautauqua County’s multi-layered approach to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during this period of heightened community transmission. The goal is to get test kits and facemasks out to residents of Chautauqua County in an equitable and efficient manner. The city of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York is joining a handful of states in requiring health care workers to get a COVID-19 booster shot. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that she was expanding on a vaccine mandate she instituted last fall requiring health care workers to get vaccinated because too many breakthrough infections were being reported among health care workers. "Staff is getting sick. They're leaving. We need them to get well," Hochul said at a news conference. "We need them to have the best fortification they possibly can and that means getting a booster shot as well." The Democrat ...
MAYVILLE — The substantial volume of COVID-19 case reports in recent days has exceeded the capacity of the County Health Department and the New York state contact tracing team to individually contact every Chautauqua County resident with a positive COVID-19 test result. “You no longer ...
