Pharmacies will begin diagnostic testing for all essential workers to help fight the Covid-19 epidemic, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Saturday.
The governor also confirmed 10,553 additional cases, bringing the statewide total to 282,143 confirmed cases in New York. Another 437 more deaths were recorded statewide in the last day.
The expanded criteria will now allow all first responders, health care workers and essential employees to be tested for COVID-19 even if they aren’t symptomatic. The state will continue to expand testing criteria as testing capacity increases.
More than 5,000 pharmacy locations will be able to provide testing, Cuomo said.
The state is continuing to conduct antibody testing for frontline health care workers. Additionally, the state will begin conductI NG antibody testing for first responders and transit workers starting next week, including MTA employees and transit workers, New York State Police and the New York City Police Department.
“We know that testing is a key component of re-opening the economy and getting to a new normal, and New York State is already doing more tests per capita than any state or country,” Governor Cuomo said. “We’ve been working with the federal government to increase the capacity of labs that process these diagnostic tests, and now we need more collection sites so we continue to ramp up our testing across the state. I am issuing an Executive Order allowing our state’s 5,000 pharmacies to conduct diagnostic testing for COVID-19, which will greatly increase our testing capacity and allow us to expand eligibility for these tests to the frontline workers and essential employees who have been going to work and interacting with the public throughout this crisis.”
County |
Total Positive |
New Positive |
Albany |
899 |
94 |
Allegany |
35 |
4 |
Broome |
251 |
19 |
Cattaraugus |
45 |
6 |
Cayuga |
47 |
8 |
Chautauqua |
27 |
0 |
Chemung |
103 |
24 |
Chenango |
91 |
7 |
Clinton |
54 |
1 |
Columbia |
140 |
11 |
Cortland |
28 |
3 |
Delaware |
58 |
7 |
Dutchess |
2,660 |
143 |
Erie |
2,773 |
170 |
Essex |
24 |
2 |
Franklin |
14 |
1 |
Fulton |
61 |
32 |
Genesee |
141 |
14 |
Greene |
107 |
17 |
Hamilton |
3 |
0 |
Herkimer |
56 |
0 |
Jefferson |
59 |
1 |
Lewis |
9 |
0 |
Livingston |
58 |
14 |
Madison |
121 |
15 |
Monroe |
1,285 |
86 |
Montgomery |
46 |
7 |
Nassau |
33,798 |
1,033 |
Niagara |
344 |
12 |
NYC |
155,113 |
4,640 |
Oneida |
364 |
41 |
Onondaga |
664 |
25 |
Ontario |
82 |
9 |
Orange |
7,973 |
818 |
Orleans |
75 |
15 |
Oswego |
57 |
6 |
Otsego |
60 |
10 |
Putnam |
885 |
266 |
Rensselaer |
221 |
23 |
Rockland |
11,091 |
1,000 |
Saratoga |
320 |
42 |
Schenectady |
431 |
134 |
Schoharie |
33 |
12 |
Schuyler |
7 |
0 |
Seneca |
36 |
18 |
St. Lawrence |
156 |
12 |
Steuben |
204 |
33 |
Suffolk |
31,368 |
762 |
Sullivan |
689 |
61 |
Tioga |
71 |
31 |
Tompkins |
126 |
5 |
Ulster |
1,166 |
190 |
Warren |
132 |
10 |
Washington |
113 |
30 |
Wayne |
65 |
12 |
Westchester |
27,231 |
598 |
Wyoming |
57 |
14 |
Yates |
16 |
5 |
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