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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced highlights of the FY2021 Enacted Budget, which advances the Governor’s Making Progress Happen agenda. The budget is balanced, includes no new taxes, continues to phase in tax cuts for the middle class, enacts the strongest Paid Sick Leave program in the nation, and advances other progressive priorities including the legalization of gestational surrogacy ...

As we watch the spread of COVID-19 and its toll on families and communities, my 50,000 colleagues across the United States have been asking ourselves a simple question: What can we do? We’ve seen that this pandemic cannot be defeated without shared sacrifices. We know that it requires us to embrace unwanted change both in our personal lives and across the global economy. Yet as we face circumstances that are unfamiliar ...

(WHAM) – An urgent care facility in Webster is teaming up with Rochester Institute of Technology to create face shields for medical personnel. Acute Kids Urgent Care in Webster is a smaller clinic that has been running low on supplies. Since most of the masks and personal protective equipment is going to hospitals that are badly in need of it to protect workers against COVID-19, Acute Kids has been trying to hold out ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is creating 500,000 test kits for the State at no charge amid a nationwide shortage of test kits and swabs. The first batch of test kits was delivered to the State on Monday and the State will receive an ongoing delivery of 25,000 kits per day. Additionally, Corning has donated 100,000 tubes and provided an additional ...

‍The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) today adopted an emergency regulation requiring New York State regulated issuers of life insurance and annuity contracts, property and casualty insurers and premium finance agencies to provide relief to New York consumers and businesses experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. Consumers experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19 ...

Walmart customers will find in the coming days they can make a purchase, pick up an order and get a delivery with no contact required. To conform with the social distancing recommended to slow the spread of COVID-19, shoppers buying groceries and other items through Walmart Pay will no longer have to tap a screen. Starting in the next week, they can scan a QR code with their phone and pay through the retailer’s ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a new hospital network Central Coordinating Team that will help facilitate a more coordinated and strategic approach among the state’s healthcare system in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The coordinating team will help implement the statewide public-private hospital plan, which the Governor announced yesterday, to share information, supplies, staff ...

Lifespan of Greater Rochester has adapted during the COVID-19 crisis to provide telephonic care management and support. Lifespan continues to provide information, guidance and more than 30 essential services for older adults and caregivers in their community. The Lifespan team is delivering hundreds of boxes of emergency food and hot meals to seniors, 1,000 boxes filled with necessity items ...

New York State Energy and Gas, which is part of the Avangrid companies, announced Monday that it is donating about 17,700 protective masks to assist health care workers across the state amid a shortage of protective gear for medical personnel fighting the coronavirus pandemic. The 9,000 surgical masks and 8,700 N95 respirators are being delivered to a state receiving center, where officials will disperse them ...