NY Law School Shut After Student's Contact With COVID-19 Patient

NEW YORK CITY — New York Law School closed its Manhattan campus after a student reported contact with the New Rochelle lawyer seriously ill with novel coronavirus, notices show.

The student told schools officials he had contact with the 50-year-old lawyer whose wife, son, daughter and neighbor have also tested positive for COVID 19, Dean Anthony Crowell told students Wednesday morning.

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"The affected student and their roommate are now in self-quarantine and will be interviewed by the Health Department and tested," Crowell said. "Our student acted responsibly and with great consideration for our community."

The school will be closed Wednesday as the Tribeca campus — which reports no known COVID-19 cases — undergoes cleaning, according to the notice.

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Yeshiva University's Washington Heights campus also closed Wednesday after the lawyer's 20-year-old son tested positive and displayed symptoms, officials said.

The son, his roommate and a close friend, as well as the lawyer's wife and 14-year-old daughter, are being monitored by the city's disease detectives, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Seven workers and one intern from Lewis and Garbuz, the midtown law firm where the Westchester lawyer worked, are being tested for the virus, de Blasio said Wednesday.

A 39-year-old health care worker, whom Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday is showing signs of recovery, was the first of six New Yorkers to test positive for COVID-19.

She and her husband, who tested negative for coronavirus, are both under isolation in their Manhattan home, officials said.