Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted two Orange County Micro-Cluster Yellow Zones but left one in place: Newburgh.
Middletown and Highland Falls are no longer in a state-designated precautionary COVID-19 zone. This lifts some restrictions from school districts, houses of worship, mass gatherings and restaurants. You see a drop in both the Orange and the Yellow Zones, Cuomo said with a power-point graphic showing some communities that fell into the two zones cut their positivity rates in half. Turn the valve. These are existing Orange and Yellow Zones, and given the progress they’ve made, the restrictions are lifted in those zones.