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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York State will provide child care scholarships to all essential workers starting Monday, April 20. Essential workers include first responders such as health care providers, pharmaceutical staff, law enforcement, firefighters, food delivery workers, grocery store employees and others who are needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the State Department of Health is partnering with Attorney General Letitia James to investigate nursing homes who violate Executive Orders requiring these facilities to communicate COVID-19 test results and deaths to residents’ families. The Governor also announced a new directive requiring nursing homes to immediately report to ...

NEW YORK, NY – The New York City Council will introduce a COVID-19 relief package that aims to protect tenants, help small businesses survive, and find creative ways to address the public health crisis brought on by the virus. Highlights include a bill that extends time for COVID-impacted tenants to repay rent and pay back debts, as well as new protections from harassment for all renters, including the City’s small businesses ...

PAINTED POST, N.Y. — By Caitlin Murphy (WENY) — The Siemens facility in Painted Post is making 3,000 protective face shields and donating them to Guthrie. On March 27, Guthrie reportedly inquired as to whether the facility could make the shields. Siemens officials say a team made up of workers from the Operations, Manufacturing and Supply Chain departments assembled to design and create the gear ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services will direct health insurers to provide cash flow relief to, and ease administrative burdens on, New York State hospitals in response to COVID-19. Relief provided to hospitals during the pandemic includes insurers’ immediate payment of outstanding accounts receivables ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced elective outpatient treatments can resume in counties and hospitals without significant risk of COVID-19 surge in the near term. Hospitals will be able to resume performing elective outpatient treatments on April 28, 2020 if the hospital capacity is over 25 percent for the county and if there have been fewer than ...

Anjali Sud has never been busier. As the chief executive of Vimeo — a video-streaming platform with 175 million registered users — Ms. Sud is dealing with swelling traffic as the world, sheltering in place, looks for virtual connections. “We woke up a few weeks ago to unprecedented demand,” she said. “We’re seeing increased usage across our products of two times, five times, 10 times. ”Ms. Sud, 36, a former ...

By Kelly Tyko (USAToday) – Walmart is looking to hire an additional 50,000 employees to keep up with high consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic. The retail giant announced Friday that it hired 150,000 workers more than six weeks ahead of schedule and had more than 1 million applicants. On average, 5,000 people a day were hired using an expedited hiring process rolled out March 19 ...

East Syracuse, N.Y. – By Tim Knauss (Syracuse.com) — Walmart and Quest Diagnostics will begin testing people for coronavirus today at a drive-through operation in the Walmart parking lot in East Syracuse. Despite no announcement of the opening, at least three dozen people have signed up for an appointment to get tested today, a Walmart representative said. The test site will be open noon to 4 p.m. today and can ...