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- SUNY Oneonta in New York is suspending all on-campus learning for the next two weeks.
- 105 students at the Central New York college tested positive for coronavirus after attending parties in and around the area when they returned for the fall semester.
- New York sent in the SWAT team to establish rapid-test facilities in Oneonta that anyone can visit.
Nowhere in the country was hit harder in the early days of the novel coronavirus pandemic than New York, forcing the state to take drastic action. As a result, New York, with a population of over 19 million people, is now reporting around 600 new cases of COVID-19 a day, and hasn't reported more than 1,000 daily cases since early June.
The numbers have been trending in the right direction for several months, with the state's COVID-19 Regional Metrics Dashboard showing that fewer than 1% of the tens of thousands of people who get tested every day are infected. But even New York isn't immune from coronavirus outbreaks at schools that reopen too soon.
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New York college closes for two weeks after COVID-19 outbreak originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 18:08:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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