P.M. NEWS WEDNESDAY 10-21-20

SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras visited SUNY Binghamton today, as that campus will re-open tomorrow after a 2 week pause following a high positivity rate for COVID 19:

(Jim Malatras 10-21-20)

Malatras said that the campus had a positivity rate of more than 4% on October 6th; the most recent testing was .1% at the Binghamton campus yesterday with 1 positive test out of 787.  More information is available at binghamton.edu/restarting-binghamton/covid-19-dashboard.html

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Governor Cuomo announced that the state tested over 124,000 people for COVID 19 Tuesday, with 2026 people testing positive.  950 are hospitalized across the state for the virus, 201 are in ICU Beds & 103 on Ventilators, 7 died from the virus Tuesday, and the state death toll is 25,679. 

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Chenango County Public Health had another 18 positive tests for COVID 19, bringing their total to 331.  There are 48 Active Cases, 224 Active Quarantines with 4 Hospitalizations,  They also report 248 Total Recoveries, 7 deaths and over 33,900 Total Tests have been Performed.

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The Broome County Health Department reports 132 more COVID 19 positive cases over the last 2 days, bringing their total to 2957.  They are up to 88 deaths, 2270 recoveries and over 4400 people are binging monitored by the Health Department.

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The Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force executed 3 narcotics search warrants in Port Crane, Binghamton, and a U-Haul storage unit in the Village of Johnson City Friday night.  Investigators arrested 32 year old Worth Brown of Binghamton and 37 year old Amy Nieves of Port Crane, on a variety of drug charges, Police seized $27,000 worth of fentanyl & $78,000 in cash from suspected drug sales, along with a loaded handgun, ammunition, cocaine, Digital scales and drug packaging materials, Brown & Nieves were remanded to the Broome County jail to await further court proceedings.

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A.M. NEWS Wednesday 10-21-20

The Delaware County Chamber of Commerce announced that a State Senate District 51 event, featuring candidates Jim Barber and Peter Oberacker will be held today starting at 12:00 noon and a State Senate District 42 forum, featuring candidates Jen Metzger and Mike Martucci will be held tomorrow starting at 10:00 am. Both events are free and open to the public through “Zoom”, Connection information will be emailed prior to the event to all those who register to info@delawarecounty.org.  The programs will be recorded for later viewing.

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Delaware County Public Health reported 2 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday. The known active cases in the County is 12, with 2 hospitalized & 10 recovering at home.  The County has had 145 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 with 69 people now under mandatory quarantine, 8 people have died and 125 have fully recovered.

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Otsego County Department of Health 3 cases of COVID 19 reported Tuesday, they have had 937 total confirmed cases, with 14 active cases, 2 hospitalizations, 7 deaths, 745 probable and confirmed cases linked to SUNY Oneonta & 21 confirmed cases in Hartwick College students.

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The State Department of Labor today released preliminary local unemployment rates for September 2020, the State’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased from 12.5% to 9.7% in September 2020.  Locally Chenango County reported 4.7%, Delaware County 4.8% and Otsego County 5%.

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Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig vetoed a Mask law passed by the Common Council; the measure closely echoed a state law already forwarded by Governor Cuomo.

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