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Colleges with severe COVID-19 should switch to remote learning: New York governor

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2020-09-09 08:42:36Xinhua Editor : Gu Liping ECNS App Download
Special: Battle Against Novel Coronavirus

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state's Department of Health will be issuing regulations to require colleges to notify the state when they have more than 100 COVID-19 cases and that colleges may have to switch to remote learning.

"Colleges across the country are seeing outbreaks," Cuomo said at a news conference, saying that nationwide 108 colleges have reported more than 100 cases each. "This is going to be a problem."

In New York, Cornell University, State University of New York at Buffalo and Hofstra University were among the educational institutions in the state that have had outbreaks.

Cuomo said colleges must report to the state's health department when they have more than 100 COVID-19 cases, a threshold that would require a switch to remote learning unless there were extenuating circumstances.

As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been more than 440,000 COVID-19 cases, with over 33,000 deaths in New York State, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

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