The wife and two children, including a Yeshiva University student, of a Midtown lawyer infected with coronavirus also have been diagnosed with the illness, along with a neighbor — bringing to six the number of confirmed cases in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday.
“They’re home on self-quarantine,” the governor said at a press conference in Albany, referring to the four people, including the neighbor, who had driven the Westchester County man to a hospital.
“We have unfortunately received news this morning that our student has tested positive for COVID-19. Our thoughts are with him and his family as well as to all those affected,” Yeshiva University said in a statement.
“We are taking every precaution by canceling all classes on Wilf Campus in Washington Heights. This includes all in-person graduate courses on that campus as wall as the boys’ high school,” it added.
The 20-year-old undergrad lived on campus at Yeshiva, officials said Tuesday, though he had not been there since Thursday, when his father — identified by sources as Lawrence Garbuz, 50, of New Rochelle in Westchester County — was admitted to NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville.
On Wednesday morning, two people who had contact with the student were taken to Bellevue Hospital for testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.
“We will continue working closely with our State partners to ensure we are doing everything we can to keep New Yorkers safe,” Hizzoner said.
The Yeshiva student had been quarantined at his parents’ home, along with his mother and sister, while his dad remains hospitalized at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan, where he was transferred Monday.
His 14-year-old sister attends the private Jewish SAR Academy in Riverdale that closed Tuesday for “precautionary measures” — as did its nearby sister school, the SAR High School. The school remained closed Wednesday.
“By definition, the more people you test, the more people you will find who test positive,” the governor said at the Albany news conference.
He also said about 300 students and faculty from SUNY and CUNY schools studying abroad in five high-risk countries — China, Iran, Italy, Japan and South Korea — would be brought home on a charter flight and quarantined in dorms for 14 days.
The sixth coronavirus patient is a 39-year-old health care worker who arrived from Iran and is self-isolated at her Manhattan home, where she is feeling better, Cuomo said. Her husband, who traveled with her, tested negative for the disease, he added.
Also testing negative was a “cluster” in Oneida County and six people in Buffalo who had been isolated in their homes after recently traveling to a part of Italy where travel warnings have been issued.
Temple Young Israel in New Rochelle, where the Westchester patients are congregants, has been ordered to suspend services and some members have been ordered to self-quarantine because of possible exposure.
Garbuz’s two other children are in Israel, according to Westchester County Executive George Latimer.
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