Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19’
Coronavirus Update, March 25, 2021
Ithaca City School District officials are aiming to increase the number of students allowed in schools for in-person learning. School Superintendent Dr. Luvelle Brown and Medical Director Dr. Melissa Dhundale (DUN-dale) say they are studying recently updated public health guidelines from the CDC. New Federal guidelines cleared students to be distanced three feet apart, rather…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update, March 24, 2021
Tompkins county has 1,770 doses of the COVID vaccine for the week of March 22. All these doses are for essential workers in phases 1a and 1b. The Covid-19 vaccine registry will be used to communicate appointment links directly with a random group of eligible people. New York State also recently announced that those 50…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update, March 23, 2021
The Tompkins County Health Department is reporting that three concerning variants of COVID-19 have appeared in Tompkins County. They are the variants commonly referred to as the U.K., New York City, and Southern California variant. The Health department is also reporting recent rise in COVID cases. On March 2nd, total active cases were at 76.…
Read MoreCounty Administrator, Jason Molino, Talks One Year of COVID-19
Jason Molino, Tompkins County’s Administrator, released a letter to the community to mark a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect life in Tompkins County. He sat down with WRFI News Director Jimmy Jordan to talk about that letter
Read MoreQ: How can a Youth Ice Hockey League Play During a Pandemic? (A: Their Parents)
Pamela Tan is both a member on WRFI’s news team, and also volunteers with her son’s youth hockey team. Everything from grocery shopping to the way we see our families has been affected by COVID. Hockey is no exception.
Read MoreCoronavirus Update, March 19, 2021
Cornell University is reporting a blatant disregard for COVID safety requirements among some of its student body. University President, Martha E. Pollock and Provost Michael Kotlikoff, wrote to Cornell’s students, calling the behavior disturbing. The University has moved to an alert level yellow, seeing 74 positive cases emerge last week. Students are missing their…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update, March 18, 2021
New York State schools will be receiving $335 million dollars in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. The money will be spent to increase COVID testing in schools. Right now, only about 57 out of 700 school districts in the state conduct testing for students or staff, according to NYSUT,…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update, March 17, 2021
The Tompkins County Health Department is announcing the receipt of nearly 2,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. The Covid-19 Vaccine Registry has communicated appointment information to a random selection of nearly 1,200 individuals with co-morbidities and 800 individuals with 1a and 1b essential worker classification. Tompkins County is reporting 21 new positive cases of COVID-19, and…
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