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Coronavirus coverage

Winter Festival canceled for safety precautions

MAYVILLE — A decades-long tradition in Mayville will take a year off due to ongoing concerns with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mayville-Chautauqua Community Chamber of Commerce board of directors announced Monday the cancellation of the 2021 Presidents’ Day Weekend Winter Festival, held ...

County reports 199 new cases from weekend

Chautauqua County’s active coronavirus caseload increased by 19 over the weekend as the health department reported 199 new cases from Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Jamestown zip code broke its previous high in active cases over the weekend — 129 COVID-19 cases are active in the city ...

County reports 26th COVID-related death, cases top 3,000

It took until late October for Chautauqua County to reach the 1,000 mark in confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic. The county crossed 2,000 cases just over a month later in early December. The 3,000th mark took just two weeks. The county Health Department on Tuesday reported 65 ...

Vaccines in hand, Cuomo urges push at NY nursing homes

ALBANY (AP) — New York expects to have received 930,000 coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of next week, a supply that should be used in an inoculation push at nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday. Cuomo told reporters he's asking healthcare providers to work through the ...

County reports 199 new COVID cases from weekend

Providing numbers from Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Chautauqua County reported 199 new cases of the novel coronavirus. Active cases increased to 452 over the weekend, a 19-person increase. Hospitalizations also increased by two to 33. Quarantined contacts, however, decreased from 1,450 on ...

COVID vaccine for undocumented immigrants proposed

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-New York City, wants the state to provide a COVID-19 vaccination at no cost to all New Yorkers — including those who aren’t U.S. citizens. Rosenthal recently introduced A.11175 in the state Assembly to require the state cover the cost of a COVID-19 ...