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Related: About this forumNY Coronavirus: Bringing Back 300 CUNY, SUNY Students Abroad
ALBANY, NY — Students at SUNY and CUNY schools who are studying abroad in China, Iran, Italy, Japan or South Korea, where coronavirus outbreaks are most widespread, will be brought back to New York. They'll be quarantined for 14 days, state officials said Wednesday morning.
The students will be flown on a charter plane into Stewart Airport in Orange County, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news briefing in Albany.
About 300 students will be brought back. They'll be quarantined in dormitories where there is excess capacity, state officials said. Those dorms identified so far are on Long Island, in Western New York and in the Utica-Rome area.
Cuomo made the announcement before heading to Westchester County to meet with local officials about the outbreak there. The wife and two children of the New Rochelle attorney in serious condition with coronavirus, plus the neighbor who drove him to the hospital, have all tested positive, the governor said. SEE: 6 Now Confirmed With Coronavirus In NY.
https://patch.com/new-york/midhudsonvalley/s/h1bvg/ny-coronavirus-bringing-back-300-cuny-suny-students-abroad?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=lifestyle&utm_campaign=alert
The students will be flown on a charter plane into Stewart Airport in Orange County, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news briefing in Albany.
About 300 students will be brought back. They'll be quarantined in dormitories where there is excess capacity, state officials said. Those dorms identified so far are on Long Island, in Western New York and in the Utica-Rome area.
Cuomo made the announcement before heading to Westchester County to meet with local officials about the outbreak there. The wife and two children of the New Rochelle attorney in serious condition with coronavirus, plus the neighbor who drove him to the hospital, have all tested positive, the governor said. SEE: 6 Now Confirmed With Coronavirus In NY.
https://patch.com/new-york/midhudsonvalley/s/h1bvg/ny-coronavirus-bringing-back-300-cuny-suny-students-abroad?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=lifestyle&utm_campaign=alert
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NY Coronavirus: Bringing Back 300 CUNY, SUNY Students Abroad (Original Post)
In_The_Wind
Mar 2020
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The University of Oklahoma is bringing back students from a study abroad in Italy as well.
redstatebluegirl
Mar 2020
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redstatebluegirl
(12,499 posts)1. The University of Oklahoma is bringing back students from a study abroad in Italy as well.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)2. Marist (in Poughkeepsie, NY) is bringing back students from Italy.
getagrip_already
(17,517 posts)3. makes no sense......
The virus is in new york. There will end up being more cases here than in italy.
You can't relocate away from this virus. Projections show 40%-70% of the population will eventually be exposed and carry the virus.
This is cray-cray. But I get they are getting pressure from parents.
dhol82
(9,457 posts)4. Yup, don't understand why they are being brought back.
Medical care is as good, if not better, in those other countries. What is the purpose of contaminating airplanes and dormitories, then creating another method of infection here?
I don’t get it.