This is our daily update of breaking COVID-19 news for Sunday, January 10th, 2021. Previous daily updatescan be found here, andup-to-date statistics are here.
New York City is inPhase 4 of reopening now, which includeszoos, botanical gardens,museums, andgyms. Citing rising hospitalization rates, Governor Andrew Cuomosuspended indoor diningin NYC starting December 14th. After beingshut downfor several weeks, NYC public schoolspartially reopened on December 7th for 3K-5th grade students, with students with special needs returning on December 10th. Certain parts of Staten Island remainunder a zoned shutdown.
Get answers to questions youmay have with our “Ask An Epidemiologist” series, or learn more aboutNYC COVID-19 testing options with our explainer. Here are some local and state hotlines for more information: NYC: 311; NY State Hotline: 888-364-3065; NJ State Hotline: 800-222-1222.
Here’s the latest:
10:30 a.m.: Two mass vaccination sites in Brooklyn and the Bronx are opening Sunday under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s strategy to ramp up vaccine administration in NYC.
The two sites will open at 1 p.m. and start running 24 hours a day, seven days a week starting Monday at 10 a.m. One is located at Bathgate Contract Postal Service in the Bronx at 4006 Third Avenue and the other is at Brooklyn Army Terminal at 140 58th Street.
New Yorkers who are eligible can make an appointment online. NYC is still in phase 1A as of Sunday, a vaccination eligibility category that includes healthcare workers and nursing home staff and residents. Beginning Monday, NYC’s vaccine sites will be permitted to administer doses to critical essential workers like teachers, police, and firefighters, as well as older adults ages 75 and up, after Governor Andrew Cuomo reversed his position on who is eligible now.
Three vaccine hubs at schools also opened on Sunday morning. Those sites are at the South Bronx Educational Campus at 701 St. Ann’s Avenue, Bushwick Educational Campus at 400 Irving Avenue, and Hillcrest High School at 160-05 Highland Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.
Another five sites will open Monday for city workers who are eligible for the vaccine and 12 more hubs open Friday across the five boroughs.
Mass vaccination sites at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and at Harlem’s public market, La Marqueta, are anticipated to open soon.
NYC has so far administered 203,181 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine so far, including 17,421 second doses. That’s less than half of the 524,425 doses delivered to the city, indicating a continued slow start to rolling out the vaccine as the virus surges again through the city.
The city’s testing positivity rate over a seven-day average was at 8.77%, according to figures de Blasio announced Sunday. There were 251 new hospitalizations and 3,731 virus cases.read more
Coronavirus Updates: Mass Vaccination Sites And Vaccine Hubs At Schools Open Sunday
