eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID A group of Northwood School students and staff including members of the school’s boys soccer, boys hockey and girls hockey teams have been quarantined after a cluster of COVID-19 cases were discovered during routine testing. As of Monday, May 3, there were 22 people connected to the cluster who had tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Essex County Health Department. Of those, 15 people are in isolation in this county, and seven people are isolating elsewhere. Northwood School has a policy that allows students to complete their required quarantine at home or with an emergency contact.
Montclair NAACP President Albert Pelham
Montclair NAACP President Albert Pelham has a way of thinking about the pandemic that has helped motivate him to react and respond to all the challenges COVID-19 has created.
“When the pandemic hit [in March 2020] and we were all sitting at home, I thought ‘I can’t come out of this being the same person I was going in, ” says Pelham, adding that the crisis energized him, as well as the Montclair NAACP, to mobilize and respond to help the community.
The Montclair NAAACP has been creative and proactive in that response to the needs of its membership and has come up with out of the box ideas to adjust to problems created by the pandemic.
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The Ontario government has officially announced that 27 regions will be moving out of the shutdown and into specific zones of the province s updated colour-coded framework next week, meaning all but four regions will no longer be under the stay-at-home order.
In a news release published Friday afternoon, the province said the majority of the public health regions will be moving back to the framework on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 12:01 a.m. due to general improvement in trends of key indicators. The health and safety of Ontarians remains our number one priority. While we are cautiously and gradually transitioning some regions out of shutdown, with the risk of new variants this is not a reopening or a return to normal, said Health Minister Christine Elliott in the release.
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Letitia James speaks to the Watertown Daily Times editorial board.
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ALBANY New York’s total COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes are about 42% more than what the state Department of Health previously published, according to a report from the state attorney general’s office released Thursday morning. The DOH confirmed the higher numbers that afternoon, releasing for the first time the number of presumed long-term care coronavirus fatalities.
According to state Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, department data audited to date shows 12,743 total skilled nursing facility resident fatalities, including 9,786 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 complications 5,957 fatalities within nursing facilities and 3,829 in hospitals and 2,957 presumed virus nursing home fatalities from March 1, 2020 to Jan. 19, 2021.
The owner of a Willsboro assisted living facility now facing a deadly coronavirus outbreak says he doesn’t know how the virus entered the facility. He said i