Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaking Tuesday at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse where he delivered his daily coronavirus briefing before Syracuse area reporters. (Eric Reinhardt / CNYBJ)
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced 35 counties have been approved to resume elective outpatient treatments.
Cuomo previously announced that the state will allow elective outpatient treatments to resume in counties and hospitals without significant risk of COVID-19 surge in the near term.
The counties now eligible are (in alphabetical order): Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chenango, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orleans, Oswego, Putnam, Saratoga, Schoharie, Schuyler, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Sullivan, Tompkins, Ulster, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates.
Eleven of the 16 Central New York counties that CNYBJ covers made the list for resuming elective surgeries. The five CNY counties that are still not allowed to resume elective surgeries are: Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Seneca, and Tioga (which has no hospitals).
(Updated on 4/30/20 at 12:10 p.m.)
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