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COVID-19: Long Island Sees Nearly 3,000 New Cases; Breakdown By Community COVID-19: Long Island Sees Nearly 3,000 New Cases; Breakdown By Community
Covid-19: Long Island Sees Nearly 3,000 New Cases; Breakdown By Community Long Island continues to see a "holiday surge" of new COVID-19 cases as there were nearly 3,000 new cases as the virus continues to rapidly spread during the winter months. There were 1,554 new COVID-19 cases in Suffolk and 1,273 in Nassau - both the highest in the state behind only New York City - according to the latest data from the state Department of Health on Tuesday, Jan. 5. Fifteen new virus-related deaths brought the total in Suffolk to 2,376 since the pandemic began, and 3 new deaths in Nassau brought the death toll to 2,431. The positive COVID-19 infection rate across Long Islan…