New Cases – As of 2:00 p.m. October 28, 2020
o Genesee County received 4 new positive cases of COVID-19 for a total of 362 positive cases.
§ The new positive cases reside in Batavia, Bergen, Darien, and LeRoy.
§ The individuals are in their 0-19’s, 40’s, 60’s, and 70’s.
§ One of the individuals was on mandatory quarantine prior to testing positive.
§ 13 new individuals are on precautionary quarantine due to travel from restricted states.
§ 3 of the positive individuals are hospitalized.
§ Genesee County Health Department received one of Elba elementary students has a confirmed case of COVID-19. The last date the student was in school was October 23, 2020. The Genesee County Health Department will be in touch with the students that were identified in our contract tracing efforts.
Elba’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten program will be going to a 100% distance learning model until November 9, 2020.
o Orleans County received 6 new positive cases of COVID-19 for a total of 397 positive cases
§ The new positive cases reside in Carlton, Barre, Shelby and Murray.
§ The individuals are in their 0-19’s, 20’s, 40’s, 60’s and 70’s.
§ None of the individuals were on mandatory quarantine prior to testing positive.
§ 16 new individuals are on precautionary quarantine due to travel from restricted states.
§ 2 of the previous positive individuals have recovered and have been removed from the isolation list.
§ 2 of the positive individuals are hospitalized.
§ Orleans County was informed today, Oct. 28, that one of the Albion students has tested positive for COVID-19. The student is a hybrid learner in the Albion Middle School. Last day the student was in the school was Thursday, Oct. 22, all contacts have been identified and have been placed under mandatory quarantine.
Click here to view the Genesee and Orleans County online map of confirmed cases https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/5f8401b0516247b490934303e3975e49/
School Guidance: New York State Department of Health has provided guidance regarding when/if to send your child to school and when/if staff should report. This guidance has been sent out to all school districts and primary care providers. If you have issues with this guidance or further questions we encourage you to contact your state elected officials or the state directly as the local counties do not have control over what the state directs. For the guidance document, click here. https://orleanscountyny.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NYSDOH_PreKGr12_Toolkit_093020-2-GOHealth.pdf
Ø The COVID-19 Report Card is an online dashboard which tracks real-time COVID-19 infections and testing operations of every New York school and school district.
Click here to access the Report Card.