North Country Not Among the Three Regions of State Ready to Begin Reopening on May 15

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North Country Not Among the Three Regions
of State Ready to Begin Reopening on May 15

May 11, 2020 01:00 p.m. Updated: May 12, 2020 03:30 p.m.

Governor Andrew Cuomo was in Irondequoit, NY this morning, near Rochester,

for his daily press briefing where he announced as of today, three regions of the

state have met the criteria to begin Phase I of reopening on May 15.

The North Country region, which includes Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence,

Franklin, Clinton, Essex and Hamilton counties, currently falls just short in one of

the seven criteria established by the state to begin the reopening process. The

region does not meet the testing capacity standard of 30 tests per 1,000

residents per month, due to a lack in the availability of testing supplies.

Three regions of the state, the Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley,

have met all of the criteria to begin a Phase I reopening on May 15.

Governor Cuomo also announced that the following low-risk business and

recreational activities will reopen statewide on May 15:

The state has also issued a

and residents of each

region can track their region's progress on readiness to reopen using the