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PoliticAverse

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:43 PM Nov 2020

Cuomo using NYPD, National Guard to increase airport COVID-19 checkpoints

Seeking to head off a second wave of coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday he plans to increase law enforcement patrols at New York airports.

Cuomo made the remarks as state health officials revealed three counties in western New York — Monroe, Onondaga and Buffalo’s Erie County — are facing sharp upticks in COVID-19 cases and new lockdown measures may come as soon as Monday.

Cuomo said he and Mayor Bill de Blasio have struck a deal to use NYPD cops and the National Guard to boost checkpoints at airports, which officials are using to try to prevent the virus from returning to New York from other parts of the country.

Under newly implemented state rules, most passengers flying into New York must have taken a coronavirus test that came back negative within three days of boarding the plane.

Read the rest at: https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/gov-cuomo-plans-to-increase-ny-airport-covid-19-checkpoints/
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