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VICTOR, N.Y. (WROC) — RG&E field customer service representatives teamed up with the Ontario County Office for to hand out meals. The representatives job duties include meter readings, in home services and much more.​ Those duties have been deemed non-critical during this COVID-19 pandemic. ​“We’re usually ready to stand by — which we still are in case something happens to the electric or gas system — but it’s definitely ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the state will invest in private companies to bring rapid COVID-19 testing to scale and accelerate testing capacity. Businesses interested in working with the state to manufacture these rapid tests on a large scale should contact Empire State Development at 212-803-3100 or COVID19supplies@esd.ny.gov. The Governor also announced that the State Department ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced all NYS on Pause functions will be extended for an additional two weeks. The Governor also directed schools and nonessential businesses to stay closed for an additional two weeks through April 29th. The state will re-evaluate after this additional two-week period. Governor Cuomo also announced the state is increasing the maximum ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the federal government is deploying approximately 1,000 personnel to New York State, including doctors, nurses, respiratory technicians and therapists, to help the state’s overwhelmed hospital systems. The first 325 personnel will be deployed to the New York City hospital system today. “The operational challenge facing our health care system ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 1,000 ventilators have been donated to New York by the Joseph and Clara Tsai Foundation. The Joseph and Clara Tsai Foundation and the Jack Ma Foundation have also donated one million surgical masks, one million KN95 masks and more than 100,000 pairs of goggles to the state. The Chinese government and Ambassador Huang Ping ...

BINGHAMTON, NY – Aside from its massive gift of personal protective equipment to the local healthcare community, Binghamton University is looking at other ways it can assist with the response to COVID-19. Professors at the school have been using 3-D printers to produce special reusable masks, plastic face shields and special adapters that would allow one ventilator to serve multiple patients. The ventilator design has 1 inlet ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will issue an Executive Order allowing the state to redistribute ventilators and personal protective equipment, or PPE, from institutions that don’t currently need them and redeploy the equipment to other hospitals with the highest need. The National Guard will be used to transport the ventilators and PPE across the state. The equipment will be returned ...

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I, D, WF-Sag Harbor) today announced that the 2020-21 enacted State Budget contains $500,000 of funding for the Cleary School for the Deaf, a 4201 school located in Nesconset. The Cleary School has served the deaf community of Long Island since 1925, and provides access to language, communication and learning for students from birth to 21 years of age ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the State Department of Health has approved Northwell’s protocol allowing BiPAP machines to be converted into ventilators. The State has purchased 3,000 BiPAP machines from Philips in Pittsburgh, and 750 machines are already in stock and will be distributed to hospitals. The State has already taken a number of extraordinary measures ...