{"id":91867,"date":"2020-10-18T02:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-covid-19-lockdown-loophole-may-put-others-as-risk-teachers\/"},"modified":"2020-10-18T02:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T23:25:37","slug":"nyc-covid-19-lockdown-loophole-may-put-others-as-risk-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-covid-19-lockdown-loophole-may-put-others-as-risk-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC COVID-19 lockdown loophole may put others as risk: teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC COVID-19 lockdown loophole may put others as risk: teachers<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Gov. Cuomo left a big loophole in his lockdown of COVID-19 \u201chot zones\u201d by letting children and adults who live in the closed communities attend or work in schools elsewhere, worried teachers say.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re just as contagious whether you are going to school in that zone or outside that zone,\u201d Queens teacher Rob Roszkowski told The Post.<\/p>\n

Thousands of teens attend high schools across the city, taking mass transit. Students with disabilities are bused to District 75 schools or programs outside their neighborhoods \u2014 and often have difficulties wearing masks.<\/p>\n

The state-designated \u201cRed Zones\u201d are home to 2.8% of the state population, but had 11.9% of all positive test results reported to the state last week, officials said. They include Far Rockaway, Kew Gardens, Borough Park, Gravesend, Midwood, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay.<\/p>\n

Cuomo has threatened to withhold state funding for any schools caught operating in the red zones, after reports that Orthodox yeshivas were still packed with students.<\/p>\n

Jonah Bruno, a state Department of Health spokesman, confirmed that students and adults in the lockdown zones \u2014 where schools must switch to fully remote instruction \u2014 can attend or work in schools elsewhere. \u201cDOH has not imposed any movement restrictions on people living in red zones. All people should continue following COVID prevention measures, including wearing a mask and social<\/a> distancing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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School buses lined up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, which is one of the designated \u201cred zones.\u201d<\/span>Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bruno refused to explain the stance or address the risks.<\/p>\n

Asked about the policy at a recent press conference, Mayor de Blasio said the city will monitor whether it causes COVID-19 to spread.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re obviously going to watch carefully to see if people moving around from community to community is having an effect, but to date, we do not see that happ<\/a>ening on a wide scale,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jay Varma, the mayor\u2019s senior advisor for public health, added, \u201cIt becomes a question \u2026 whether or not we need to restrict the movement of people in or out of those areas, and that presents really very important human rights considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even at the height of the outbreak, he said, the state did not restrict movement of people within New York.<\/p>\n

But movement from outside the state is another matter. The state currently mandates that everyone returning from 38 \u201crestricted states\u201d<\/a> \u2014 ones with widespread COVID-19 transmission \u2014 fill out a travel<\/a> form and quarantine for 14 days.<\/p>\n

Staff working in all city DOE schools must fill out a daily health screening which asks, among other questions, whether they recently traveled to any of those states.<\/p>\n

The survey does not ask whether they came from one of NYC\u2019s red, orange or yellow zones.<\/p>\n

Queens teacher Roszkowski blasted the city\u2019s \u201cwait-and-see\u201d policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lives of students and staff have to matter more than the mayor\u2019s social experiment,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a dedicated teacher, I am appalled that the safety of my students, as well as myself and my colleagues, has continually been jeopardized by this approach.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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