The novel coronavirus has reached nearly every corner of Chautauqua County. The county Health Department announced 61 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. Seven
ALLEGANY â The top administrator at Allegany-Limestone Central School District recently demonstrated just how easy a rapid COVID-19 test can be on the districtâs Facebook site.
Superintendent Tony Giannicchi said he posted comments and a video of himself, and two students, having the rapid test administered by the school nurses in the event the region is designated as a yellow zone by the state.
In his comments to district residents, Giannicchi said âALCS is preparing for the administration of the Rapid Antigen COVID -19 test to be administered by the Cattaraugus County Health Department SHOULD our region be designated as a Yellow Zone.â
The novel coronavirus has reached nearly every corner of Chautauqua County.
The county Health Department announced 61 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. Seventeen new cases were reported in Jamestown and eight new cases were each reported in Dunkirk and Fredonia. A number of municipalities also reported four new cases or less.
The only municipalities that have zero active cases include the Celoron, Chautauqua, Conewango Valley, Dewittville, Findley Lake and Gerry zip codes.
Hospitalizations rose by one to 20 and 1,631 individuals are under quarantine orders.
The county’s seven-day infection rate now stands at 6.2%.
In total, 2,193 have tested positive for the virus. Of that number, 1,792 have recovered. The 20-29 age demographic has doubled
A couple of months after the Volz home explosion in November 2019 on West Branch Road in Allegany, a member of the Cattaraugus County Health Department staff stopped by our home to ask if we would like them to test our water.
Of course, we said yes. On March 3 we were informed that the arsenic levels in our drinking water were at level 16 (10 is allowable) and we could not drink or cook with our water.
We were very upset. We immediately called our family physician and were sent for blood work. Both my husband and I were negative for arsenic levels. This leads me to believe that the arsenic was a recent addition to our water supply due to the oil and gas drilling across from our home on the West Branch Road.
Sixty-one new cases of COVID-19 were reported Thursday by the Chautauqua County Department of Health. The increase, part of a prolonged surge seen not only in