The Hudson Valley is on track to enter Phase 3 as of Tuesday, June 23, when it would join Western New York, the Capital Region, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Central New York, Mohawk Valley, and North Country.
In Phase 3, indoor dining is permitted, as well as personal care services such as nail salons and tattoo parlors, though all businesses will be under strict restrictions.
In Westchester, 216,186 residents have been tested for COVID-19, resulting in 34,358 (15.9 percent) positive cases. Since the pandemic broke out more than three months ago, there have been 1,405 COVID-19-related deaths reported.
Cases of COVID-19 in Westchester by municipality, according to the Department of Health:
- Yonkers: 7,006 (212 active);
- New Rochelle: 2,977 (102);
- Mount Vernon: 2,672 (54);
- White Plains: 1,793 (51);
- Port Chester: 1,233 (29);
- Greenburgh: 1,139 (26);
- Peekskill: 956 (35);
- Cortlandt: 826 (38);
- Yorktown: 681 (50);
- Mount Pleasant: 572 (15);
- Eastchester: 444 (9);
- Mamaroneck Village: 422 (28);
- Harrison: 396 (8);
- Somers: 379 (60);
- Sleepy Hollow: 368 (3);
- Scarsdale: 353 (6);
- Dobbs Ferry: 310 (7);
- Tarrytown: 282 (12);
- Mount Kisco: 277 (7);
- Bedford: 248 (8);
- Rye City: 202 (2);
- Elmsford: 199 (11);
- Croton-on-Hudson: 198 (22);
- North Castle: 198 (4);
- New Castle: 183 (2);
- Rye Brook: 177 (1);
- Mamaroneck Town: 167 (3);
- Pelham: 158 (1);
- Ossining Town: 152 (4);
- North Salem: 141 (13);
- Tuckahoe: 134 (3);
- Hastings-on-Hudson: 125 (9);
- Pleasantville: 120 (3);
- Lewisboro: 105 (5);
- Pelham Manor: 105 (1);
- Briarcliff Manor: 100 (5);
- Ardsley: 92 (1);
- Irvington: 80;
- Larchmont: 66 (1);
- Bronxville: 64;
- Buchanan: 33;
- Pound Ridge: 27 (1).
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that with more businesses continuing to open, it will be up to local governments to “do their job” and enforce the rules and guidelines set forth by the state as it methodically reopens following the COVID-19 crisis.
“Local governments are supposed to be enforcing compliance. Compliance is hard … people have been cooped up for a long time, but people want to do what people want to do, and I get that,” Cuomo said. “We have to stay smart and if local governments don’t enforce compliance, you’re not doing anyone a favor.
“People are concerned, and people are scared, so when they see a business doing the wrong thing, they’ve been snapping a picture and I’ve been seeing those,” Cuomo continued.
“The people of this state know what they did and the sacrifice they made to get this virus down and they don’t want anyone else’s irresponsibility to get in the way with that.”
Statewide, more than three million people have tested for COVID-19, resulting in 384,575 positive tests, and 24,608 deaths.
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