New York graduation ceremony sparks coronavirus cluster after families returned from Florida vacation
The infected people in the cluster visited Florida, then attended a high school graduation ceremony back home in New York
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Fourteen people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Westchester County — a cluster likely sparked after two families traveled to Florida then attended a graduation ceremony in the suburban New York county, officials said Monday.
The infected people in the cluster visited the Sunshine State — a current hotbed of the coronavirus — then attended a drive-thru graduation ceremony at the Chappaqua train station for Horace Greeley High School on June 20.
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Thirteen people who attended the ceremony have tested positive for the virus, Westchester County Executive George Latimer said.
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A student who is infected also went to a “field night” event later that night, ABC 7 reported. The event, which was not sanctioned by the school, was attended by juniors and seniors from several high schools in the county.
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“Of the 14 that are positive, these people are all inter-related by where they were or by personal association, but that’s what constitutes a cluster,” the county’s health commissioner, Dr. Sherlita Amler said Monday.
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All of the people infected are self-isolating for 14 days.
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This article originally appeared in the New York Post.