Politics & Government
Hudson Region Reopens For Construction Staging: Cuomo
The seven counties in the Mid-Hudson region will open next week if death rates continue to decline, the governor said Friday.
HUDSON VALLEY, NY — The seven counties that make up the coronavirus Mid-Hudson region are expected to re-open next week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at his Friday morning briefing. That is, as long as the death rate continues to decline.
In anticipation, Cuomo announced that construction staging work is now allowed to start up. Construction is in Phase 1 of the state's re-opening plan.
In Phase 1:
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- Construction
- Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
- Retail - (Limited to curbside or in-store pickup or drop off)
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale Trade
In the re-opening plan, the maximum acceptable three-day rolling average of new hospital deaths is five and the Hudson region as of Wednesday had seven.
The Mid Hudson and Long Island need to finish gathering enough tracers for the state's Test-Trace-Isolate process. Rockland County Executive Ed Day said Thursday that the state had shifted the responsibility for finding tracers from its own task force onto the counties.
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