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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday announced five new testing facilities downstate, primarily in minority communities. A drive-through mobile testing facility will open at the Sears Parking Lot at 2307 Beverly Road in Brooklyn tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., and a drive-through mobile testing facility opened at the Club House at Aqueduct Race Track Parking Lot, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd, in Queens on Monday April 6th. In addition, the state is opening three walk-in facilities at health care centers in the South Bronx; Jamaica, Queens; and in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The walk-in facilities will open next week and will be by appointment only.
The state has opened nine testing facilities to date. The sites will prioritize tests for individuals that are among the highest risk population. Residents who would like to be tested at these facilities must make an appointment by calling 888-364-3065.
The Governor also announced the "New York Loves" effort to coordinate all foundations, philanthropies, not-for-profits, charities and other entities that want to help or donate to the state during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. New York Secretary of State Rosanna Rosado and State Director of Nonprofits Fran Barrett will coordinate this effort and any resources that are collected, and will work with local governments that need additional help.
The Governor is also asking all New Yorkers who have recovered from COVID-19 to contact the state and donate blood. Individuals who have recovered from the virus may have convalescent plasma in their blood, which has antibodies against the virus and could help with the development of a treatment for the virus. More information about how to donate is available here.
Governor Cuomo will also issue an Executive Order to bring additional funeral directors to New York to help with the high number of deaths due to COVID-19.
"Our efforts to reduce the spread of the virus through social distancing are working better than we expected because people are complying with them," Governor Cuomo said. "Rapid testing and increasing our testing capacity is going to be the bridge to the new economy and restarting, but we also need to make sure we are learning the lessons of what we're going through now because we haven't finished going through it yet. We are going to increase testing and open new testing sites to collect more data in African-American and Latino communities so we can better understand why this virus kills and has higher fatality rates in certain communities, and what we can do to address it."
Finally, the Governor confirmed 10,621 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 159,937 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 159,937 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:
County: Total Positive/ New Positive
Albany: 379/ 37
Allegany: 22/ 1
Broome: 105/ 17
Cattaraugus: 17/ 2
Cayuga: 16/ 2
Chautauqua: 18/ 1
Chemung: 59/ 4
Chenango: 55/ 2
Clinton: 40/ 1
Columbia: 70/ 7
Cortland: 16/ 0
Delaware: 37/ 0
Dutchess: 1493/ 98
Erie: 1362/ 157
Essex: 8/ 1
Franklin: 11/ 1
Fulton: 15/ 1
Genesee: 56/ 9
Greene: 28/ 3
Hamilton: 3/ 1
Herkimer: 32/ 3
Jefferson: 42/ 2
Lewis: 6/ 0
Livingston: 26/ 1
Madison: 91/ 1
Monroe: 698/ 47
Montgomery: 28/ 10
Nassau: 20140/ 1592
Niagara: 146/ 12
NYC: 87028/ 5225
Oneida: 158/ 33
Onondaga: 358/ 11
Ontario: 43/ 4
Orange: 4090/ 225
Orleans: 22/ 6
Oswego: 36/ 3
Otsego: 39/ 1
Putnam: 438/ 35
Rensselaer: 79/ 4
Rockland: 6665/ 252
Saratoga: 172/ 10
Schenectady: 167/ 18
Schoharie: 12/ 0
Schuyler: 4/ 0
Seneca: 15/ 3
St. Lawrence: 76/ 7
Steuben: 89/ 7
Suffolk: 17413/ 1569
Sullivan: 294/ 15
Tioga: 17/ 5
Tompkins: 105/ 6
Ulster: 460/ 38
Warren: 40/ 7
Washington: 25/ 5
Wayne: 39/ 0
Westchester: 17004/ 1117
Wyoming: 29/ 2
Yates: 1/ 0
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