Coronavirus Clusters Reported In 2 More Central Queens ZIP Codes
KEW GARDENS, QUEENS — The Health Department has added two Central Queens ZIP codes to a list of neighborhoods where cases of the coronavirus appear to be increasing more quickly than in most of New York City.
The city is now monitoring five coronavirus clusters in Central Queens, within the ZIP codes 11415, 11366, 11367, 11374 and 11432, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.
New to that list are the ZIP code 11366, an area of Fresh Meadows and Hillcrest that saw more than 3 percent of coronavirus tests come back positive over the last two weeks, and 11432 in Hillcrest, Jamaica Estates and Jamaica Hills, where the positivity rate was just under 2.7 percent.
The ZIP codes 11366, 11367 and 11415 are all seeing cases of the virus grow at “alarming” rates, with positivity rates that exceed 3 percent, according to a Health Department advisory sent to reporters Wednesday