ALBANY (AP) — Asymptomatic individuals who are exposed to COVID-19 can now end their quarantine after 10 days in New York under new guidance the governor announced Tuesday. That's down from the 14-day period recommended since the pandemic began. New York and other states have eased their ...
DENVER (AP) — The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The coronavirus variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver and has no travel ...
From March to now, everywhere we went in 2020, COVID-19 was there. Just last week, news has come that the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are set to be administered to residents at Heritage Ministries’ skilled nursing facilities in Chautauqua County as the county has begun receiving ...
Even though schools have been going “above and beyond the call of duty,” the executive director of the Chautauqua County School Boards Association said area districts still face a plethora of problems in the coming months. Raymond Fashano, retired superintendent of schools, pointed to a decrease in state support by $1.1 billion as well as a “threatened” 20% cut in state aid by state Gov. Andrew Cuomo to all school districts. “This money was intended to help students cover the costs associated with the COVID -19 virus crisis,” Fashano said in a news release. “It was ...
As of Christmas Eve, five municipalities in Chautauqua County had reported upwards of 25 active cases of COVID-19. The Chautauqua County Health Department, which last released numbers from Dec. 23 and is expected to release numbers from the holiday weekend on Monday, reported that Jamestown had 127 active cases of the coronavirus, Dunkirk had 41 cases, Fredonia had 34 cases, Frewsburg had 30 and Mayville had 29. Spectrum News reported last week that a small cluster had been linked to The Magnolia in Frewsburg. Mayville’s cases have lingered from an outbreak at the Chautauqua ...
Between Christmas Eve and Sunday, Chautauqua County confirmed 293 cases of the novel coronavirus, the Health Department announced Monday. According to the county's dashboard, which had not been updated since Dec. 24, there are now 399 active cases in the county. Two more COVID-19-related deaths were also reported in the four-day period. The county reported 75 cases in the Jamestown zip code, 39 in the Dunkirk zip code, 35 in the Frewsburg zip code, 19 in Fredonia, 18 in Lakewood, 11 in Forestville and 14 in Ripley. Other municipalities were reported as having a handful of new cases. ...
