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Coronavirus is "like a fire spreading" on Long Island as Nassau County passed Westchester as the county with the second-most diagnosed COVID-19 cases in New York State on Saturday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

In a nod to his hometown, founder Ken Srubinski named the brewery Secatogue, after the Native American tribe that originally inhabited what is now West Islip.

Studies have shown that stressful times are better managed with a pet by your side, which means there’s no better time than the present to adopt a new cat or dog.

A half dozen hospitals on Long Island have been termed corornavirus hot spots with some of the greatest totals of COVID-19 patient hospitalizations in the New York Metro area, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.

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The Trump administration on Thursday looked set to join local officials in advising Americans to wear masks when venturing out during the still-exploding coronavirus pandemic, as the U.S. death toll rose by 1,000 in a single day for the first time.

Bob Brennan, chief operating officer of Schneps Media, the parent company of the Long Island Press, died on March 31 at the age of 68.

Coronavirus cases on Long Island are surpassing 20,000, with diagnoses on track to double less than a week after the region broke the 10,000 mark, a rate of increase that Gov. Andrew Cuomo called "troubling."

Amazon.com Inc. plans to roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S. and European warehouses plus Whole Foods stores by early next week, a huge deployment for workers on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.

Northwell Health is converting a medical device used for sleep apnea and other conditions into a ventilator to increase the number of ventilators available to its patients, throughout New York and nationwide.

Hauppauge-based Chembio Diagnostics said it is launching a 15-minute COVID-19 test in the United States with shipments slated to begin this month.

In perhaps his most somber news conference to date about the pandemic, Trump, who has faced criticism for playing down the threat of the outbreak in its initial phases, urged the population to heed guidance to limit groups to no more than 10 people, work from home and not dine in restaurants or bars.