New York City's Health Department has identified a new cluster of COVID-19 cases in Brooklyn, and said on Tuesday a marked uptick in infections there and in some other neighborhoods is 'cause for significant concern.'
FILE PHOTO: Ambulances are seen outside the emergency center at Maimonides Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 14, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Four areas have seen a large increase in cases between early August and last week, Patrick Gallahue, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, wrote in an email to reporters. However, in the borough of Queens, positive cases have risen to 2.24% in Kew Gardens and 3.69% in Edgemere-Far Rockaway. In Brooklyn, officials are concerned about Williamsburg, with a 2% positive rate, and a southern part of the borough that includes Midwood, Borough Park and Bensonhurst, where the positive rate is 4.71%.
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