COVID-19 update: Suffolk’s positive rate among the highest in the state – RiverheadLOCAL

The day before right this moment marked the 29th straight day that Sleek York Tell’s COVID-19 clear test price became below 1% statewide — however a pair of dozen counties, along with Suffolk and Nassau beget clear rates over that benchmark.

Suffolk County’s clear price became 1.5% the day earlier to this and 1.6% Thursday, in accordance with Tell Effectively being Division files posted online as of late. Nassau’s clear price became 1.2% the day earlier to this and 1.6% the day earlier to this. Definite rates in both counties were 1.1% on a seven-day rolling average, in accordance with the state’s numbers. Utterly different downstate counties exterior of Sleek York Metropolis — Rockland, Putnam, Orange and Sullivan —reported the same clear rates.

Upstate Otsego County, the set SUNY Oneonta is located, had a 4% clear price — 5.1% on a seven-day rolling average, the state reported as of late. A COVID-19 outbreak at SUNY Oneonta compelled the university to send its students home for the semester throughout the second week of lessons. The faculty introduced the decision Thursday, when it mentioned confirmed circumstances had risen to 389 since the originate of the semester on Aug. 24. Oneonta had already begun a two-week “pause” on Aug. 30 in an try to limit the spread of the virus. As of as of late there beget been 559 confirmed circumstances among students there.

Oneonta is basically the most vulgar example of community spread of COVID-19 on college campuses in Sleek York, however it absolutely is on no account by myself. SUNY Buffalo reported 91 confirmed circumstances as of lifeless the day earlier to this, correct a handful of circumstances vexed of the 100-case threshold requiring a two-week shutdown below suggestions introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo final week.

Stony Brook College, which reported its first clear case on Aug. 28, on Wednesday introduced 17 novel circumstances. The university mentioned it became retesting the 18 students whose tests got here aid clear and would beget novel test outcomes within 24 hours. It has no longer updated the knowledge on its COVID-19 dashboard since then. Stony Brook also reported two clear tests among workers. A college spokesperson would possibly possibly furthermore no longer be reached for declare.

Hofstra College mentioned the day earlier to this it had a filled with 27 confirmed clear circumstances for varsity students, along with confirmed clear circumstances from on-campus checking out and confirmed clear circumstances from off-campus checking out confirmed via the Division of Effectively being. Hofstra has had no clear tests among workers, in accordance with its websites.

SUNY Former Westbury has no longer had any confirmed circumstances, in accordance with its websites. Farmingdale Tell College isn’t any longer posting the data on its websites. St. Joseph’s College will open on-campus lessons after Labor Day.

Local COVID-19 files

Statewide, 801 extra coronavirus circumstances were confirmed the day earlier to this — a .8% clear price — bringing the state’s entire to 438,772.

Suffolk County had 98 novel confirmed circumstances the day earlier to this, in accordance with state files, bringing the total county entire to 45,200.

Riverhead Metropolis has had 801 confirmed circumstances to this point, or 23.78 positives per 1,000 other folks.

The hamlet of Riverhead has the absolute top entire in the township, with 514 circumstances, or 36.6 circumstances per 1,000 other folks.

Case totals for other hamlets in Riverhead Metropolis are as follows:


Aquebogue 30


Baiting Hole 15


Calverton 120


Jamesport 17


Northville 14


Wading River 108

Across the river, the hamlet of Flanders, with 211 circumstances entire to this point, has a per-thousand price of 44.1. Riverside has had 95 circumstances (30.2 per thousand) and Northampton has had correct 20 circumstances, however a per-thousand price of 33.2.

A state of emergency attributable to the coronavirus pandemic remains in attain in Sleek York, Suffolk County and in Riverhead and Southampton cities, with restrictions on alternate, civic and social activities extended to no longer no longer up to the rupture of the month.

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