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COVID-19: Cuomo Says New Rochelle Containment Zone Was 'Major Communications Mistake' COVID-19: Cuomo Says New Rochelle Containment Zone Was 'Major Communications Mistake'
Covid-19: Cuomo Says New Rochelle Containment Zone Was 'Major Communications Mistake' New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted to making communications mistakes at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic when new cases first began cropping up in the Hudson Valley as one of the first "clusters" was spreading in New Rochelle. In March last year, the second laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 case in New York was contact traced back to a 50-year-old lawyer from New Rochelle who attended religious gatherings that became the first “super-spreader” event in the country. In response, on March 10, 2020, with more than 100 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Westchester and the numbers on the rise, Cuomo a…
State Orders One-Mile New Rochelle Containment Area, School Closures To Combat COVID-19 Spread State Orders One-Mile New Rochelle Containment Area, School Closures To Combat COVID-19 Spread
State Orders One-Mile New Rochelle Containment Area, School Closures To Combat Covid-19 Spread New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking drastic steps to help contain the spread of COVID-19 out of New Rochelle, which has proven to be ground zero for the virus in New York state. Cuomo said in a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, March 10 that there are now a total of 108 positive novel coronavirus cases in Westchester, all tracing back to the 50-year-old attorney who became the second New Yorker to contract the virus. “We’re going to continue to see positive cases because they’re tested primarily from a universe of people who tested positive,” he said. “But what those numbers do show is…