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Friday, March 13, 2020
Vol. 95, No. 11
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Katz, officials clash Mayoral candidate claims lack of notice BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Village of Great Neck Plaza mayoral candidate Leonard Katz on Friday disputed claims made by Village Attorney Richard Gabriele that sufficient notice was given on the change in date of the village elections. Katz also criticized the village administration for what he claimed was a lack of transparency in the waning days of his bitterly fought election campaign. “I was astounded, yet not surprised, to see such negative yet wholly untrue assertions coming from the [Ted] Rosen campaign, quoted as from Mr. Gabriele, the village attorney,” Katz wrote in a statement. “I guess they must be running scared to have to do what they did.” Election petitions for Katz, who is running on the Revive Great Neck Plaza Party line, were disqualified by the Nassau County Board of Elections, which cited petitions with the wrong election date and changes in the election date after petitions were already Continued on Page 26
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH
From left, New York State Commissioner of Health Howard Zucker and Gov. Andrew Cuomo tour Northwell Health’s laboratory with President and CEO Michael Dowling (far right).
Northwell starts coronavirus testing Officials say Nassau has 25 confirmed cases of disease as of Wednesday morning At a news conference at the news conference held by Cuomo. classes and Northwell Health BY R O S E W E L D ON “What is going to happen is A N D R O B E R T P E L A E Z stepped up its ability to test for Theodore Roosevelt Executive Nassau County has 25 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus, County Executive Laura Curran said Wednesday, less than a week after the first case was reported in the county. The announcement came after Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York, some local colleges canceled
the COVID-19 virus, which has spread around the world since originating in China. In Nassau County, two cases were reported in the Town of North Hempstead and two in the Town of Oyster Bay. The other 21 were reported in the Town of Hempstead. Ten tests for the virus are pending. Six of the patients with confirmed cases were hospitalized. One hundred fifty-three Nassau residents are under mandatory quarantine, while 79 are under precautionary quarantine.
and Legislative Building in Garden City, Curran did not give any details about those who were infected. Some local school districts, while avoiding closing schools altogether, said some families with students have had contact with confirmed coronavirus patients. THE FIRST CASE An unnamed 42-year-old man who lives in Uniondale and works at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre was being treated for coronavirus at NYU Winthrop Medical Center in Mineola, it was announced on March 5 at a
the number will continue to go up. It must because we are continuing to test more and more,” he said. “The more you test, the higher number you will have.” Curran, who was present at the governor’s second news conference that day, said the patient tested positive at Wadsworth Labs in Albany. “When we got the positive result, we immediately took the next step and the Department of Health launched a contact investigation, where the patient is interviewed and we have invesContinued on Page 50
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