NEW YORK (VINnews) — The NYC Health Department has issued a stern warning to the Brooklyn and Queens areas in its ongoing campaign to draw attention to the uptick in COVID cases in those regions.
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The department said that due to the considerable growth in COVID-19 cases seen in areas such as Midwood, Edgemere Far Rockaway, Kew Gardens, Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Williamsburg & others, there are some steps that will be taken immediately.
Starting tomorrow, there will be regular inspections of all non-public schools within these clusters and their adjacent zip codes. The number of enforcement staff will continue to increase in order to provide robust mask and social distancing compliance in these areas as well.
The departmemt further threatened, that if COVID numbers do not begin to improve in these areas, additional steps will be taken in these areas. These steps will include prohibiting all gatherings of more than 10 persons, issuing fines for refusals to wear a mask after being offered a mask, ordering private schools and child care centers to close if they don’t meet DOE standards, and lastly, closing all non-essential businesses immediately.
The city is giving until this Monday to see progress. These repercussions will be in effect starting Tuesday if sufficient progress is not made.
The department says that Sheriff and NYPD continue to monitor mask compliance in these neighborhoods, which have been overwhelmingly low compared to other areas of the city. The Office of Special Enforcement has found several stores to be non-compliant and plans to revisit all stores that have been found to be non-compliant on the first visit.
On Thursday, Chevra Hatzalah sent out a community advisory to notify the community of the “steady and dramatic rise” of COVID cases in the community.
In the notice, Hatzalah strongly advised the community to abide by all recommended COVID guidelines, such as wearing masks, keeping to other CDC and government rules, and avoiding large gatherings.
Most importantly, Hatzalah now reccomends all patients that require medical care to go to the hospital. Although there were some who avoided the hospital in the past for fear of worsening their condition, things have changed, and there are additional medical treatments available now for use that were not utilized in the past.
The full notice from Hatzalah can be found below.
One of the problems is that people who don’t have symptoms in these areas don’t get tested and that is why the positive rate is very high. IMO I think people who don’t have any symptoms should get tested, this will bring the rate down. No, I’m not sponsoring any tests. I’m not sure if Insurance companies pay for the tests.
Well, yeah. That is what we pay the Health Department to do. They tell people to shut down their operations to protect the public.
Tell the city tzi kishin you know where and call it a protest because obviously the virus is so smart it knows not to infect protesters.
Really? Until Monday? That’s utterly insane! People who are going to show up with symptoms on Monday were already infected probably. So this is a automatic fail that the Department of Health is giving the community.
It’s time to stand up to the de Blasio administration YEMACH SH’MOM. They shoulda NOT push us around anymore. Enough is enough is enough!
Hey, I am old enough to remember closing down the economy, schools and stores so that we can “flatten the curve”
I am old enough to remember when deblasio ymsh said we will all get it but we just need to flatten the curve so that the hospital systen isn’t overwhelmed.
Hey Archy are you out there? Did you read this? Is this enough of a chilul HaShem for you to just tell all your followers on the web to put on their masks and start being that light unto the nations that we are suppose to be? There is no downside to wearing a mask ESPECIALLY if there is good reason to believe that they actually do work. Let’s say you don’t believe that they help stop the spread by 95% or whatever # they say Even if they would only protect 50% or 35% of people, is that not enough of a # that you would be willing to be a bit uncomfortable?
And for their great glee in this probably happening because 3 days is impossible, I hold Drs Glatt and Ditchek fully responsible!
Reading these comments make me realize that had these commenters been around back in the day there would have neen no Chanukah or Purim to celebrate. Those rebelling at the time were a small monitory. They were ridiculed and “didn’t care about the greater good” well they cared about hashem and that is all that mattered. Time for Yidden to realize that DOH doesn’t mean us. There is an agenda and we yidden must let those city officials know we listen to Hashem and nobody else.
Time for you all to stop the fear and anxiety chatter in your brain and look at the torah for guidance. Not at the corrupt government officials who hate you using the pretense as “health” “greater good” or “flattening the curve”
We need to fight this more than camps . The govt can and must not mix into to our schools . This is must stop . Schools are essential and can not be closed period case closed . A goy / secular Jew can’t understand that our children must have in person learning for their Judaism . We also don’t have internet or zoom. You are killing our kids mentally , developmeamtally and spiritually . School owners must have the guts to get up and say over my dead body , my school Stays open.
Yes precautions as much as possible should be taken. But schools must stay open . It’s worse than shutting grocery stores