Governor Cuomo Announces Supplemental Downstate Covid-19 Testing and Neighborhood-Centered Vaccination Web-sites to Suspend Operations Because of to Impending Wintertime Storm
Governor Andrew Cuomo currently announced additional COVID-19 screening and vaccination websites throughout downstate New York will suspend operations on Sunday, February 7 due to the impending wintertime storm. This follows the formerly announced operation suspensions at the point out-run mass vaccination sites at Jones Beach and Stony Brook. New Yorkers with testing or vaccination appointments at these web sites will obtain notification of these suspensions by using textual content concept and telephone. Appointments will be rescheduled for later in the week.
“Substantially of Downstate New York is anticipated to expertise heavy snow and sturdy winds, generating the prospective for unsafe travel ailments on Sunday. As we have now performed at a number of point out-run mass vaccination web-sites, we will be suspending functions at testing web-sites and group primarily based ‘pop up’ vaccination web pages to safeguard the protection of all these who work and have appointments at these spots,” Governor Cuomo claimed. “Anyone with appointments can relaxation assured they will not shed their spots – all appointments will be rescheduled for later in the week and absolutely everyone will get immediate notification of these scheduling alterations.”
Point out-Run COVID-19 Take a look at Web-sites
Functions at the next point out-run COVID-19 screening internet sites will be suspended on February 7 thanks to the impending winter season storm:
- Glen Island in New Rochelle
- Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens
- Bronx Bay Plaza in the Bronx
- Lehman University in the Bronx
- Jones Seaside on Prolonged Island
- Stony Brook on Lengthy Island
- Seaview Avenue on Staten Island and
- Fountain Avenue in Brooklyn.
New Yorkers with appointments scheduled on Sunday, February 7 will obtain discover of the closure by means of text concept and phone. Appointments will be rescheduled for afterwards in the week.
Community-Centered ‘Pop Up’ Vaccination Web-sites
Seven local community-based mostly ‘pop up’ vaccination web sites will also be postponed because of to the storm and rescheduled for later on in the 7 days. Those people eight sites consist of:
- Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 W 138th New York, NY 10030
- BronxWorks, 1130 Grand Concourse, BX, 10456
- Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 1376 Prospect Ave, Bronx, NY 10459
- Castle Hill Properties, 625 Castle Hill Ave, The Bronx, NY 10473
- Marble Hill Homes, 5365 Broadway, Bronx, NY 10463
- Initially Baptist Church of Corona, 100-10 Astoria Blvd., East Elmhurst, NY 11369
- United Revival Mennonite Church, 390 Melrose St, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Appointments at these group centered ‘pop up’ vaccination sites are scheduled right with the host internet site or companion companies SOMOS Local community Treatment and Northwell Health. Those people entities are notifying New Yorkers with appointments scheduled on Sunday, February 7 of these postponements and the new dates of procedure by using text message and phone.
Additionally, the web page at Christian Cultural Center is cancelling Sunday operations as they ended up ready to extend hrs and satisfy all appointments on Saturday.
Point out-Run Mass Vaccination Internet sites
As Governor Cuomo beforehand introduced, the state-run mass vaccination web sites at Jones Seaside and Stony Brook on Extended Island will also suspend operations on Sunday, February 7 because of to winter season temperature. New Yorkers with appointments these internet sites will acquire an e-mail or text concept rescheduling their vaccination for later on this 7 days. As aspect of the rescheduling system and to the extent achievable, timing of new appointments will be scheduled in alignment with the first appointment’s time. If that new appointment time does not function for an specific specified the change in day, they will be delivered with a get hold of quantity to identify a distinct time that might do the job greater for the particular person.
Functions at the Westchester County Middle, Yankee Stadium, Javits Center and Aqueduct Racetrack mass vaccination web sites will keep on as scheduled as those destinations are found indoors and have the infrastructure and products in location to guarantee New Yorkers with appointments can safely and securely enter and exit the site. Functions at the remaining point out-run mass vaccination sites during Upstate New York also remain unimpacted.
