Governor Cuomo Announces Updated COVID-19 Micro-Cluster Focus Zones, Brooklyn Red Zone Decreases

AS the red zone infection numbers improved NY state changed some of the zones in Brooklyn, particularly where the red zone, with stricter rules have decreased by 50%

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NYC COVID CLUSTER ZONE MAP

 

 

Governor Cuomo on NY1

As a matter of context, day 251, we are obviously in a different phase with COVID and we’ve been talking about it for weeks but we have to fully acknowledge it. The fall phase the scientists all predicted was going to be worse. You’re seeing global and national surges that are dramatic, and that’s the new reality of COVID, okay? So the numbers are all changing, all across the globe, all across the country. The challenge for our state, like other states, is managing the increase. How do you manage the increase? We manage the increase by the most aggressive testing in the country and our micro-cluster strategy, which is identify a small spread, increase enforcement, increase restrictions.”

Cuomo: “If you look at the numbers, Queens, the micro-cluster approach is working. We had two micro-clusters in Queens. We had one in Far Rockaway, and that micro-cluster is going to be extinguished as of today, because the numbers were under control, the micro-cluster worked, and the micro-cluster for Far Rockaway is being terminated. The micro-cluster in Queens in the Kew Gardens area is unchanged. The Brooklyn micro-cluster, the red zone, is working, and it’s working well, and we’re going to reduce the size of the red zone by 50 percent. And we’ll put out a map today that shows the exact parameters of that reduction, but it’s a reduction of 50 percent and the yellow zone is also reduced 50 percent. So it’s working in Queens, it’s working in Brooklyn.”