NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul examined constructive for COVID-19 on Sunday, saying she’s going to isolate and work remotely this week.
“Fortunately, I am vaccinated and boosted, and I am asymptomatic,” Hochul, 63, tweeted. “A reminder to all New Yorkers: get vaccinated and boosted, get examined, and keep house when you don’t really feel nicely.”
A day earlier, the Democratic governor had tweeted a photograph from the Olana State Historic Website exterior Hudson, New York, which she visited to thank park volunteers.
Hochul is not less than the 18th U.S. governor to check constructive for COVID-19, in response to an Related Press tally. A number of U.S. governors have examined constructive in current months, with Connecticut‘s Ned Lamont and Maine‘s Janet Mills testing constructive in April. New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams examined constructive on April 10, his a centesimal day in workplace.
Hochul’s constructive check comes amid rising case numbers in New York. For weeks, a lot of upstate New York has been within the high-alert orange zone, a Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention designation that displays severe neighborhood unfold.
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New York Metropolis final week crossed town’s threshold for “medium threat,” indicating the widening unfold of the subvariant knowns as BA.2 that has swept the state’s northern reaches.
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