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With Nick Esposito
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday extended a stay-at-home order for all non-essential workforce through April 15, coinciding with the timeline in a previous order for schools to remain closed statewide in an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
All non-essential workforce are directed to work from home.
Cuomo first issued the stay-at-home order on March 22.
“We will re-evaluate every two weeks,” the governor wrote on Twitter.
As the coronavirus spreads rapidly, New York continues to be a hotbed for the virus. As of Sunday morning, there were 59,513 confirmed cases in the state, Suffolk County accounting for 5,023 of those positive tests.
Due to high number of COVID-19 numbers in the tri-state area, the CDC issued a travel advisory.
Schools were previously scheduled to reopen April 1.
Locally, the William Floyd School District was already planning for a potential extension to the closing order, said district spokesman James Montalto.
Cuomo said in a tweet that schools “will continue to provide childcare, meals and daily programming.
“We will reassess at that time.”
