Inside: State launches online tracker of COVID cases in schools
The state has launched a website that provides information about COVID-19 case totals in schools across New York.
The “COVID-19 Report Card” site (schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov) was announced Thursday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gareth Rhodes, an assistant to Cuomo and longtime Ulster County resident.
The searchable site, accessible to the public, contains COVID data for school districts; individual public, private and charter schools; and colleges and universities.
The site shows the number of students and staff tested per location and how many results came back positive over the past day, week and two weeks.
In Ulster County — where only the private High Meadow School in Stone Ridge, the Hudson Valley Sudbury School in the town of Kingston and the Woodstock Day School in Saugerties are teaching students on campus — there were no cases of COVID-19 were reported as of
Wednesday, according to the tracker.
Also Thursday, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras and Civil Service Employees Association President Mary E. Sullivan announced an agreement for free, mandatory COVID testing of CSEA-represented employees of the State University system.
The agreement comes on the heels of a similar deal struck last week that requires mandatory COVID testing for all employees represented by the union United University Professions.
Effective immediately and continuing through Dec. 31, all CSEA employees who work in person at state-operated universities, colleges and hospitals will be tested regularly, at no cost to them, during their work hours.
SUNY currently has the capacity to process 120,000 test samples per week, the announcement said.
SUNY New Paltz on Thursday reported no new cases of COVID-19.
The college has reported 14 COVID cases among students since the start of the fall semester on Aug. 24, though only two of those cases remain active. No employees of the college have tested positive.
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