SUNY Oneonta is closing its campus for two weeks, after at least 105 people test positive for corona

SUNY Oneonta is closing its campus for two weeks, after at least 105 people test positive for coronavirus since the start of the fall semester.

Governor cuomo has deployed a 'swat' team to suny oneonta to contain a covid-19 cluster at the campus.

The suny chancellor was at suny oneonta today, to announce that the state is shutting down the college for two weeks, following that spike in coronavirus cases.

Newschannel 2's gary liberatore was there, and spoke with the chancellor.

(gary liberatore, news channel 2) .

None tc : 02:57 "well as students here at oneonta go inside to get tested well the head of the sony system chancellor malatras as the primary source of all instructions here happened happen i said have been triggered to a number of parties on and off campus so far five students and three camps organizations have been suspended."

Suny chancellor had quite the entourage with him...as he approached the podium.... tc : 07:08 "today is a difficult day for suny oneonta... chancellor jim malatras says under the governor's order that if a campus sees 5 percent of its campus population test positive....or 100 cases, whichever is triggered first.... tc : 09:10 "105 students as of today have tested positive for covid- 19."

That means the school would basically shut back down...or in the school's words...go on pause... (dr. barbara morris, suny oneonta president) tc : 17:50 "students will not be allowed to leave the campus, we will be working with our health department to quarantine in place so our students will be remaining on campus but they will be quarantined they will be very limited with regards to where they can go itll essentially be limited to the third dormitories."

(kevin davidson , suny oneonta junior) tc : 33:22 "surprised, taken off guard, last we knew it was 29 cases friday now it's 105 and we're shutting down."

(chris frommyer, suny oneonta senior) tc : 37:13 "im a senior at the school and to have my last year tarnished beuse of an tbreak of ce 19 it kinof hurt" tc : 364 "but i believe therwouldnt be e spread tt they ha now, theyaid 105tudents, if they wouldveested everye in the ft place."

S the studts wereot tested fore comingack on campus... (coved) tc : :38 "welwe used theest scienceat thg articulated through the suny system" depending on which state you lived, students had to quarentine at home for 10 days before coming to school...or if they were from a hotspot state...14 days... now it's time to react to what has happened.

(jim malatras, suny chancellor) tc : 10:15 "we are going to test everyone of our students at suny oneonta that its going to be done with suny upstate just gonna be mandatory this is not negotiable test so if students are using the campus."

Oneonta residents can also now get tested quickly...starting on wednesday.

Tc : 10:56 "governor cuomo is deploying a testing swat team to come to the city of oneonta where they will establish three sites, the hotline will be up tomorrow where people can call and the sights will be identified and released tomorrow.

Testing will begin on wednesday."

(mayor gary herzig, (d) oneonta) tc : 22:41 "its a wake up call for people of all ages we all read the newspaper, watch television, hear about these parties to take place and it spreads like wildfire and everybody has a sense well that wont happen here."

(gary liberatore, news channel 2) tc : 03:46 "again the chancellor says at the end of two weeks, things will be reassessed for the possibility of the return to in person learning.

In oneonta, gary liberatore, news channel 2."> going county by county with coronavirus now.

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