Watch now: Here are rules for New York State's 'yellow zones'
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said parts of Erie County will be subject to "yellow zone" restrictions, based on cluster-based cases of Covid-19 in the region.
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Running a successful restaurant was hard enough when things were normal.
In interviews with local officials around the state already living in the kind of yellow zone now in place in Buffalo and surrounding communities, life in such a zone is not without its effects.
Some schools have already announced a shift to all-virtual learning. Others are surveying parents to see if they will consent to their children being tested at school.
Beginning Friday, bars and restaurants in New York must close by 10 p.m. Restaurants are limited to curbside, food-only pickup after 10 p.m.
Among the first in a yellow zone, they found there was no blueprint for setting up a Covid testing operation virtually overnight. But they quickly figured out how to test students, and at minimal cost.
Now that much of Erie County is officially in a state-imposed yellow zone aimed at reducing …
At issue is the new requirement for public and private schools to test 20% of their students and staff for Covid-19 each week.
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There are ways to travel with relative safety during the time of Covid-19, but multiple experts interviewed for this story said they are doing the holidays by Zoom – and you probably should, too.
Emergency services at Sisters Hospital’s Main Street campus in Buffalo are not affected by the closure in Cheektowaga.
For the first time, part of Niagara County was placed into the yellow zone of Covid-19 restrictions by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Wednesday.
