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BRONX TIMES REPORTER,42 NOVEMBER 13-19, 2020 BTR
Sirens, lights, police Getty Images
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
A Brooklyn man was arrested for
killing a man during a hit-and-run in
Manhattan on Thursday evening.
Authorities say that at 6:15 p.m. on
Nov. 5, the NYPD responded to a 911
call regarding a pedestrian struck at
the intersection of East 120th Street
and 3rd Avenue. Upon their arrival,
offi cers found 28-year-old Ganesh Jaman,
of Macombs Road in the Bronx,
lying in the crosswalk, unconscious
and unresponsive, with trauma
throughout his body.
EMS rushed to the location and declared
Jaman dead at the scene.
A preliminary investigation
found that Jaman had been struck by
a white Mercedes Benz, which was
said to be operated by 43-year-old
Marcos Villegas, of Cozine Avenue in
Brooklyn. The vehicle was recovered
at East 120th Street and Pleasant Avenue
and Villegas was taken into custody.
Villegas was charged with being an
aggravated unlicensed operator of a vehicle.
The investigation is ongoing.
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
New York City is “dangerously
close” to getting hit with
a second wave of the novel coronavirus,
Mayor Bill de Blasio
said on Monday.
Last week, the city reported
upticks in COVID-19 cases in
two Staten Island zip codes
that prompted offi cials to increase
contacting tracing efforts
and roll out a bevy of
new testing sites on the island.
But cases are going up across
the city and New Yorkers
only have “one more chance”
to knock down numbers, de
Blasio warned.
“I’ve been telling you for
weeks that we had the ability
to stop a second wave,” said de
Blasio. “We can stop a second
wave of the virus if we act immediately
but we have one last
chance…Everyone has to be
part of it just like you fought
back the coronavirus after
March and April.”
COVID numbers have
steadily gone up with the number
of new cases surpassing
the city designated threshold
of 550 since late October. On
Monday, City Hall reported
779 new cases of the virus
based on a seven-day average,
a daily positivity rate of
2.36% and a weekly positivity
rate of 2.21%. Offi cials also
announced that out of the 71
New York City residents admitted
to a hospital with suspected
COVID-19 symptoms
21, or 30%, tested positive for
the virus.
De Blasio has warned in
the past that passing the city
threshold numbers would result
in new restrictions to stop
the spread of the virus. So far,
the city has yet to announce
any changes to school openings,
business operations or
social gathering rules as a result
of the creeping numbers
in part out of fear of stifl ing the
city’s economy again, Mayor
de Blasio said. Although indoor
dining will now have to
be reevaluated.
City health offi cials were
unable to say the exact source
of the citywide spike in cases.
Dr. Ted Long, head of the city’s
contact tracing effort, admitted
that about 10% of all city
cases are tracked back to interstate
travel and fi ve to 10%
of cases are linked to specifi c
gatherings or events. Election
celebrations on Saturday
have caused some concern
among health offi cials, de
Blasio said.
“What we have seen over
the months is sometimes is just
a family gathering even, you
know, 10 people get together or
15 people get together and that
can actually spread the disease
among families,” de Blasio. Offi
cials again urged New Yorkers
to not travel or take part in
large family gatherings for the
upcoming Thanksgiving and
December holidays.
New York City health offi
cials updated the city’s
COVID-19 website on Monday
to include positivity rates
by zip code again based on a
seven-day average. The website
has also been updated to
include more refi ned data on
COVID-19 cases by age and
turnaround times at testing
sites. The newly available data
will serve as a warning to New
Yorkers of how quickly the virus
can start local but not
stay local, said Dr. Long. In
Staten Island alone, the number
of zip codes with a COVID
positivity rate above 3% has
jumped from two to eight since
last week.
Mayor Bill de Blasio (Courtesy NYC Mayor’s Offi ce)
Bronx man dies in hit-and-run