6 APRIL 30, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Reopening plan for New York area taking
shape with coronavirus cases decreasing
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Reopening the New York regional
economy is coming closer to reality
as the state reports continued
decline in hospitalization rates as well
as deaths.
According to Governor Andrew
Cuomo, the Centers for Disease Control
says regions can begin a return
to normalcy after a 14-day decrease
in hospitalizations, which leads the
state into a three-phase plan to do so
safely.
On Saturday, hospitalizations for
new COVID-19 cases were at 1,087
while there were 367 deaths across
the state. The infection rate is currently
at 0.8%, which means one
COVID-19 positive person is only
infecting one other person on average,
according to Cuomo.
But despite this, Cuomo still indicated
on Sunday that May 15 remains
the goal for phase one of reopening
different regions of New York state.
“Phase one of the reopening
will involve construction and
manufacturing activities, and within
construction and manufacturing,
those businesses that have a low
risk,” Cuomo said. “Phase two would
be more of a business-by-business
analysis using the matrix that we’ve
discussed: How essential a service
does that business provide and how
risky is that business.”
According to Cuomo, it will be
“very much” up to businesses whether
or not they reopen, but there will be
a two-week period between phases
to monitor whether or not the virus
is making a comeback through testing
and hospitalizations.
The two weeks imposed by the
state between phases is informed by
the incubation rate of the disease.
“They have to think about how
they’re going to open up with this
quote-unquote new normal, what
precautions are they going to take in
the workplace, what safeguards are
they going to put in place,” Cuomo
said. “Everyone understands the
overall risk that you start to increase
activity and the infection rate goes
up, two weeks to actually do that
monitoring.”
One caveat of reopening will be
limiting attractions in one region
that would provoke travel to other
regions as people from various
places travel through a desire for
activity.
But Cuomo said this primarily
goes for downstate where different
facets of life that operate in lockstep
to other states are most common.
Photo via Flickr/Governor Andrew Cuomo
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