Oswego County, N.Y. – Oswego County has joined the growing list of New York counties that meet federal guidelines for a return to indoor masking, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC issued guidance in late July recommending that everyone – even vaccinated people – wear masks indoors in counties with substantial or high levels of Covid transmission.
Those counties now also include Greene, Tioga and Wayne counties, which moved from moderate to substantial spread, according to CDC data. Fourteen of the state’s counties are now categorized as high-spread areas.
Two counties moved out of the substantial spread category, now only meeting the standard for moderate spread, according to the CDC. The latest data shows Schuyler as the only county left in the state with a low rate of transmission.
A total of 41 counties in the state now meet the criteria for indoor masking.
High:
- Bronx County
- Hamilton County
- Dutchess County
- Kings County (Brooklyn)
- Nassau County
- New York County (Manhattan)
- Orange County
- Queens County
- Richmond County (Staten Island)
- Rockland County
- Saratoga County
- Suffolk County
- Sullivan County
- Westchester County
Substantial:
- Albany County
- Broome County
- Chenango County
- Columbia County
- Erie County
- Fulton County
- Greene County
- Herkimer County
- Lewis County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Niagara County
- Oneida County
- Onondaga County
- Oswego County
- Otsego County
- Putnam County
- Rensselaer County
- Schenectady County
- Schoharie County
- Seneca County
- Tioga County
- Tompkins County
- Ulster County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
The state reported 4,385 new Covid cases on Saturday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo again encouraged residents to get vaccinated, particularly to combat the recent spike in cases driven by the Delta variant.
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