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TexasTowelie

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Tue Sep 22, 2020, 07:52 PM Sep 2020

City Declares Part of Southern Brooklyn to be Coronavirus Cluster Site

The city declared a coronavirus cluster site Tuesday after half a dozen neighborhoods recorded upticks in recent days, Department of Health officials announced.

Officials are referring to a rise in cases in Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst as "The Ocean Parkway Cluster” because of the especially rapid increases in rates there over the last three weeks. That cluster represents 20% of all new COVID-19 citywide in the past week.

Other neighborhoods with alarming increases in the positivity rate include Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and Kew Gardens and Far Rockaway in Queens.

"At this point in time, these increases could potentially evolve into more widespread community transmission and spread to other neighborhoods unless action is taken," health officials said in a press release.

Read more: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/09/23/city-declares-part-of-southern-brooklyn-to-be-coronavirus-cluster-site

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City Declares Part of Southern Brooklyn to be Coronavirus Cluster Site (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP
Has to be the chasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn. dhol82 Sep 2020 #1

dhol82

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1. Has to be the chasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 07:59 PM
Sep 2020

They keep on having large gatherings with no regard for masks or social distancing.
Will expect hot spots in the Catskills next.

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