{"id":328,"date":"2020-03-13T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=328"},"modified":"2021-12-28T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T14:44:33","slug":"update-brooklyn-college-closes-campus-after-student-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/03\/13\/update-brooklyn-college-closes-campus-after-student-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Brooklyn College Closes Campus After Student Tests Positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/><\/strong>Media Contact: Kristia Winter<br \/>718-629-2900 \/ KWinter@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK, NY \u2014 Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn)<\/strong> issued the following statement after a student at Brooklyn College tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>STATEMENT BY COUNCIL MEMBER LOUIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Thursday evening, a member of the Brooklyn College community tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). Members of the campus community\u2014students, faculty, and staff\u2014have been notified. As a precaution, Brooklyn College is closing their entire campus today, Friday, March 13th for cleaning. This mandate will also affect grades 11 and 12 of Brooklyn College Academy, which operates on\u202fthe campus. Grades 9 and 10 of Brooklyn College Academy, which operate off-campus, will remain open. Grab and go meals will be served at Midwood High School at the main entrance for Brooklyn College Academy students today.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn College, as part of the CUNY system, suspended on-campus classes effective March 12-18, 2020 and will conduct the remainder of the Spring semester online.<\/p>\n<p>Our office is monitoring the situation. Let us remain calm and vigilant. Our community is resilient and we will push through. We extend our well wishes to the student for a full recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>New York City Council Member Farah N. Louis&nbsp;represents the 45th Council District, which is comprised of&nbsp;&nbsp;Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Marine Park, Flatlands, &amp; Kensington&nbsp;&nbsp;in Brooklyn, NY. She is a member of the committees on&nbsp;Civil Service and Labor;&nbsp;Economic Development;&nbsp;Education; Finance;&nbsp;Housing and Buildings;&nbsp;Youth Services; and&nbsp;Justice System.&nbsp;Council Member Louis is the Co-Chair of the Women\u2019s Caucus and Vice Co-Chair of the Black, Latino\/a, and Asian Caucus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/><\/strong>Media Contact: Kristia Winter<br \/>718-629-2900 \/ KWinter@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK, NY \u2014 Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn)<\/strong> issued the following statement after a student at Brooklyn College tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STATEMENT BY COUNCIL MEMBER LOUIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Thursday evening, a member of the Brooklyn College community tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2020\/03\/13\/update-brooklyn-college-closes-campus-after-student-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}