County Continues Mask Donations With Greenburgh Faith Leaders

GREENBURGH, NY — In observance of the National Day of Prayer, County Executive Latimer was joined by faith leaders Thursday from the Town of Greenburgh during his daily news conference. He was kicking off a program to distribute masks to religious communities in need.

“Greenburgh residents need to know that society at large will make extra efforts to stop the contagion," he said. "The county has been able to receive masks that are intended for use by the community and these will be donated to three major houses of worship in the Fairview section of Greenburgh for distribution to their congregants."

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Latimer said the distribution happened thanks to the leadership of Legislator Alfreda Williams and Councilwoman Gina Jackson.

In Greenburgh, the county executive was joined by Bishop Wilbert Preston from Christ Temple Greater International, Reverend Dr. Verlin D. Williams from Union Baptist Church, Pastor Leroy Richards from First Community Church of the Nazarene, Greenburgh Town Councilwoman Gina Jackson, and Greenburgh Department of Community Resources Commissioner Andre Early, Deputy Commissioner Terrance Jackson and Assistant Commissioner David Reggina.

Previously, Latimer helped personally delivered thousands of masks donated by Hanes Brands Inc. to the Town and Village of Ossining, City of Peekskill, Rye City, Village of Larchmont, Village of Pleasantville, Town of Mount Pleasant, Town of Mamaroneck, Village of Port Chester and the Village of Rye Brook. He will continue to make these deliveries around the County.

According to New York State numbers, there are now 30,708 positive cases of the new coronavirus in Westchester County.

Latimer said that 25,959 of those have reached or exceeded the two-week infection window, meaning the active number of positive cases is not 4,749.

"That number has decreased dramatically," he said, adding that it's now lower than where the county was in mid-March.

Seventeen more county residents died from coronavirus-related illness, bringing the day's total to 1,184.

There was no updated data available on the number of hospitalizations.

At press time, the county had not released community by community infection numbers.

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