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New York City topped its 550 daily case average total for the second time in days Monday, while the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city moved to implement new local restrictions as the Garden State’s COVID numbers continue to soar. Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wouldn’t make any changes when asked about potential fallout from that daily case...

Schools in some COVID-19 cluster zones reopened. Tracie Strahan reports.

New Jersey’s toll of 1,909 new COVID-19 infections Saturday was the most it had seen in a day since early May.

New York state COVID hospitalizations topped 1,000 Friday for the first time since late June, while New Jersey hospitalizations hit a three-month high on the same day, likely a lagging effect from the case increases both states have been battling. In New York, the overall infection rate remains low, below 1 percent excluding the hotspot areas, which still have comparatively…

The rise in New Jersey’s coronavirus cases is hitting schools in Woodbridge Township hard. Sarah Wallace reports.

New York state COVID hospitalizations topped 1,000 Friday for the first time since late June, while New Jersey hospitalizations hit a three-month high on the same day, likely a lagging effect from the case increases both states have been battling.

More than 100 New York City public schools reopen for in-person learning Monday, following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s move this week to loosen restrictions in some cluster zone areas of Brooklyn and Queens (here are the updated maps). Schools that had been in either red or orange zones were required to switch all-remote when the governor unveiled his micro-cluster strategy in…

The school year in Schenectady, New York, started with a whack of a budget ax.

Andrew Siff reports on the latest in the fight against COVID-19 in New York City.

It’s a tale of two cities in New York, two weeks after Gov. Andrew Cuomo implemented new restrictions in highly specific hotspot areas in Brooklyn and Queens. Nonessential businesses, including indoor dining, can reopen Thursday in parts of Queens, where Cuomo eased the rules a day earlier. In Brooklyn’s highest-risk area, its red zone in places like Borough Park,...

A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that mental health has become a serious problem due to the ongoing pandemic, New York City announced steps it is taking to tackle the mental wellbeing of the youth. Deputy Chancellor for School Climate and Wellness LaShawn Robinson, who leads the city’s DOE efforts to provide student support services, joined Mayor Bill...

NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has realigned his cluster zone maps, announcing Wednesday that virus control measures will be eased in two red zone sections of Queens and intensified in Brooklyn’s red zone, given ongoing infection rate and compliance issues there. Nonessential businesses will be permitted to reopen Thursday in areas where red zone restrictions were lifted. Schools that switched all-remote...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has realigned his cluster zone maps, announcing Wednesday that virus control measures will be eased in two red zone sections of Queens and intensified in Brooklyn’s red zone, given ongoing infection rate and compliance issues there. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to reveal a realignment of his cluster zone maps, potentially easing restrictions in some hotspot areas, like central Queens, that improved compliance and lowered positivity rates over the past two weeks. Tracie Strahan reports.

While coronavirus cases continue to rise in most of the U.S., New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to announce a realignment of the state’s microcluster zones on Wednesday as the acutely targeted approach to stamps out the virus appears to show signs of improvement. NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.

In New Jersey the number of positive cases exceeded 1,000 for the third day in a row bringing the positivity rate to 1.13%. The growing numbers come as the state’s largest school district announced it will not bring students back to class in person and will keep remote learning through at least late January. New Jersey reporter Brian Thompson reports...

Increased restrictions and concentrated enforcement efforts are proving successful in tamping down recent spikes of COVID-19 in what the state has deemed hotspot clusters within four separate counties, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. A little more than a week into the latest COVID-19 restrictions, Cuomo said targeting spikes of the virus on a “block-by-block level” has so far…

State and county health officials filed a lawsuit Friday against an Orange County school that they said has remained open despite an order to close because of a spike in coronavirus cases. The Times Herald-Record reports the suit filed in state Supreme Court in Goshen names the Bnei Yoel school in Kiryas Joel. Earlier this month, Orange County health officials ordered...