Officials Take Action As Omicron Cases Surge Across New York City, Especially In The Bronx
The city is battling the worst COVID-19 wave in a year. The Bronx currently has the highest positivity rate and in some neighborhoods that number is near 50%.
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The city is battling the worst COVID-19 wave in a year. The Bronx currently has the highest positivity rate and in some neighborhoods that number is near 50%.
Parents, students and teachers are trying to cope with the COVID surge and do what's best for learning.
Teatro SEA, the Hispanic young people's theater on the Lower East Side, has been celebrating the holiday for the past 21 years, but the recent spike in COVID cases has forced the organization to make this year's show virtual.
Bragg also said his office will also look into making greater investments in diversion programs as an alternative to incarceration, reduce pretrial incarceration, and limit adult prosecution of youthful offenders.
Police sources tell CBS2 the victim was not the intended target, but rather an innocent bystander.
Several area schools closed or delayed open Wednesday due to icy road conditions.
In the city, the Bronx tops all the boroughs with a 27% COVID positivity rate, and in the Fordham, Kingsbridge and University Heights sections, the rate is 47%.
Before officers arrived, we're told the 45-year-old suspect pulled a gun on the cashier and stole cash from the register.
Passengers on board a train from New Orleans to New York City ended up stranded in Lynchburg, Virginia.
It happened in Far Rockaway for the second day in a row. Monday, people were stranded on Beach 84th Street because of all the flooding.
Virginia Giuffre sued the prince in August, saying she was coerced into sexual encounters with the prince in 2001 by Epstein and his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Residents can use the money for rental assistance and home repairs not covered by insurance.
The current COVID positivity rate across the state is 22.5%. In New York City, it is 21.4%. In the northern suburbs, which the state refers to as the mid-Hudson regions, it's 24.4%. On Long Island, the positivity rate is among the highest in the state, at 27.3%.
With record numbers of COVID cases in our area, hospitals are being flooded with requests for antibody treatments that were saving lives, but many patients are being turned away.
Mayor Eric Adams is defending his response to the pandemic, including having fully open schools.
