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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 ...

The U.S. has seen a shortage of testing kits as the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, spreads. But the Air Force recently began transporting items used for testing — including swabs and liquids — via cargo planes from Europe to the U.S., at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to top Pentagon officials. Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said that swabs used ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a statewide public-private hospital plan to fight COVID-19. As part of the plan, public and private hospitals from across the state have agreed to implement a new balanced approach to fighting the virus where hospitals that are beginning to reach or exceed capacity can transfer patients to other hospitals that are not as full ...

The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that live racing at Aqueduct Racetrack is canceled for the remainder of the winter and spring meets with the building now set to serve as a temporary hospital site during the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On Friday, New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that New York would seek the required federal approval ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, Senator Jamaal T. Bailey and Assemblyman Michael Benedetto today announced they have secured a critical new COVID-19 mobile testing site for the Northeast Bronx. “Our main strategy to slow the spread of this virus has been to increase testing and reduce density in every community across the state,” Governor Cuomo said. “The multiple drive-through ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced all NYS on Pause functions will be extended for the next two weeks. The Governor also directed the state nonessential workforce to continue to work from home for an additional two weeks through April 15th. The state will re-evaluate after this additional two-week period. In-person workforce restrictions, which have been implemented through ...

NEW YORK—Mayor de Blasio today called for a rent freeze for 2.3 million tenants in nearly 1 million rent-stabilized units across the City amid the COVID-19 epidemic. The City will work with the State to suspend the Rent Guidelines Board process for the upcoming year, which will maintain all regulated rents at this year’s level and provide a lifeline to tenants in need. “We are in the midst of a crisis only comparable to the Great Depression ...