Chenango County Health Department is advising residents of an increase in levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater surveillance data over the past two weeks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending faces masks be worn indoors in upstate New York where there are high community levels of COVID-19.
New York State plans to start testing wastewater in all counties across New York State for variants of the coronavirus and track changes in concentration.