City of Hornell

There are 58 new cases of COVID in Steuben today, plus some that investigations were not complete by print time. Sadly, 2 more have passed. Thankfully, 59 mor...e have recovered. Free rapid testing will be available for Steuben residents next week, starting on Monday, December 7 at the Corning Community College Health Education Center. We are so grateful for the partnership with the college and its nursing students to be able to provide more testing for the community. We are hopeful more testing will lead to slowing the spread of COVID-19 by identifying unknown positives and successfully quarantining them from others. For more information on the testing, see https://www.facebook.com/SCNYPublicHealth/posts/3281636918615286 Our next report will be on Monday. Have a safe and healthy weekend.

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There are 47 new cases of COVID in Steuben today that have completed investigations. There are more than a dozen additional positive test results that have bee...n received today, but not all investigations were able to be completed by press time due to the number of contacts and tracing this required of today's positives. Only completed investigations have been included in today's release. Sadly, there have been two more deaths from nursing homes. Thankfully, 12 more have recovered. We are starting to see more people become positive who identify they had contact with a positive outside the investigation period. By New York State guidelines, we are only able to quarantine contacts that fall within the investigation timeframe. As a reminder, the investigation timeframe starts 48 hours prior to any symptom onset or 48 hours prior to the test date if the positive is asymptomatic and goes through the investigation date. Because of this, someone who had contact with a positive three days prior to them getting tested or symptoms starting would not be quarantined. Today, we are seeing many individuals who identified they were with already reported positives outside that investigation window, and they are also now positive. If you are positive, you can help slow the spread by alerting any of your recent contacts of your positive status, even if they fall outside the investigation window. If you are notified that you had contact with a positive person, limit your interactions with others and consider getting tested, especially if you have any symptoms. **Please note, there was one more from the Town of Wayland than was included in the release. Only 46 municipalities were noted in the release.