8,600 rapid home COVID tests are still being distributed locally over the next few days by Broome County Office of Emergency Services to targeted populations.
New Yorkers are again being required to wear facial coverings while inside public places in an attempt to curb the latest wave of coronavirus infections.
Broome County on Friday announced another death from the coronavirus pandemic, a woman in her 80s, bringing the county death toll for the week to nine.
After a bit of a slowdown in the renewed rise in cases of COVID-19 in New York State earlier this week, the number of new infections is taking another big jump.
According to the latest update on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID Data Tracker, Broome County's situation has gone from bad to worse.