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Garnar said that 30 percent of the ICU beds in the county were available and open as of Wednesday.

“Most of the inmates are isolated from each other,” Harder added. “They’re not allowed out of their cells. They’re basically quarantined to keep the spread down.”

There are 580 active cases of the virus in Broome County and 29 hospitalized residents.

"We can’t let down our guard now, though."

“I think that’s something that we should all work to follow because that just makes good public health sense, but I think that’s one that would be very, very hard to enforce."

With all election districts reporting, Garner leads with 61 percent of the vote en route to his second term.

Democratic County Executive Jason Garnar and Republican challenger Karl Bernhardsen met in an online forum hosted by the Rotary Club of Binghamton.

The district will need to test around 20 percent of those coming into the schools—including teachers, students and staff—each week.

“I don’t want to wait until after the election to do this, I think we need help now."

“In coordination with this new cluster initiative, I am going to continue to ask people to stay home for these 14 days as well,” Garnar said.