Amid the coronavirus pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced on Thursday that the state’s stay-at-home order, which had been set to expire Friday, is being extended until June 13.
“Both travel-related cases and community contact transmission of COVID-19 have been documented in New York State and are expected to continue,” the Governor’s executive order says in continuing the “New York State on PAUSE” policy, which was put in place in March.
“All enforcement mechanisms by state or local governments shall continue to be in full force and effect until June 13, 2020, unless later extended or amended by a future Executive Order,” he added in the order signed Thursday.
With metrics trending in the right direction, Cuomo declared that the Central New York had become the fifth of the state’s 10 economic regions to qualify for the first phase of reopening once the statewide Pause order was set to expire at midnight Friday.
Four other regions — the North County, the Southern Tier, the Mohawk Valley and the Finger Lakes — had already qualified by meeting all seven state criteria on hospital admissions, available beds, testing and tracing.
New York has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. The state has seen at least 348,192 cases of the virus and 27,617 fatalities.
