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Potential COVID-19 exposure in Pleasantville

The Westchester County Department of Health has been notified that two priests and a staff member at Holy Innocents Catholic Church, located at
431 Bedford Road in Pleasantville, have tested positive for COVID-19. The two individuals have potentially exposed many people over four days of
services.

Anyone who attended the following services must quarantine, as required by the New York State Department of Health, for 14 days (regardless of a negative COVID-19 test) from that last visit to the church during these days:

• Aug. 24 – Morning mass

• Aug. 25 – Morning mass

• Aug. 29 – First Communion ceremonies and all masses

• Aug. 30 – All masses

Testing is being conducted at Phelps Hospital, located at 701 N. Broadway in Sleepy Hollow from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Patient are asked to drive
towards the Emergency Department, locate the signs for the testing tent. Stay in your car and drive in that direction until you reach the site. Patients will identify themselves as part of the church cluster for testing. No appointment is necessary.

Contacts of contacts, meaning secondary exposed people, are currently not at risk and do not have to quarantine.  The county is currently working closely with the church, the Archdiocese of New York, the Pleasantville School District and the village and will continue to update the public as information becomes available.

The New York State Department of Health has set up a hotline at (888) 364-3065 where Department of Health experts will be available to answer questions regarding COVID-19. (Submitted)