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Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman offered a coronavirus update duing the Town Board's September 10 work session.
“The coronavirus is still here,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said Thursday morning, September 10, during a brief Town Board work session.
Two out of every 100 tests for coronavirus saw a positive result as of September 9, he reported. According to the online map displayed by Suffolk County, there were 52 new cases reported countywide that day, bringing the county total to 45,593 since the pandemic began in March.
While some days have seen infection rates below 1 percent, on Wednesday the rate increased to 1.8 percent. Thirty-three patients suffering from COVID-19 were hospitalized across the county, a figure up by four from the day before. Hospitalizations in that range have been constant "for a while now," Mr. Schneiderman said.
In Southampton, where the county reports a total of 1,197 cases, Mr. Schneiderman said there are “a few” new cases reported each day.
“This is no time to let our guard down,” the supervisor said. “Coronavirus is still very much here.” He said that as people began to see the number of cases decrease, “they tend to feel a false sense of security. We shouldn’t.”
“We all want this to be over as fast as possible,” he acknowledged, offering, “It’s unimaginable to me, that the Town of Southampton has been in a state of emergency since March.”
Officials are toiling under state mandates, executive orders from governor Andrew Cuomo as well as local orders from the supervisor.
“Everybody is doing their part,” Mr. Schneiderman praised.
Police, the Public Safety division, emergency responders — “everybody is doing their job to keep people safe.”
Town staff has changed how they operate to keep people safe, he noted.
Breakdowns on the county COVID-19 case tracker for Southampton Town depict six cases in Sagaponack, 23 in Bridgehampton, 41 in Noyac, 19 in Sag Harbor Village, 25 in Water Mill, 65 in North Sea, 112 in Southampton Village, 31 in Tuckahoe, 22 in Shinnecock Hills, 220 in Hampton Bays, 211 in Flanders, 62 in East Quogue, 16 in Quogue Village, 143 in Westhampton, 31 in the Village of Westhampton Beach, 18 in Quiogue, 29 in Remsenburg-Speonk, 37 in Eastport, and 20 in Northampton.
Overall, there are just under 21 cases for every 1,000 people in the Town of Southampton.
While the infection rate in Suffolk County exceeded 1 percent, the statewide average has been below 1 percent for 34 days, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The governor also confirmed 757 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 441,911 confirmed cases in New York State.
Only Nassau County, at 73, and New York City, at 336, reported more new cases in the state than Suffolk County.
