A surge in COVID-19 cases and a shortage of health care workers is filling hospitals and nursing homes past their capacity in upstate New York, creating a growing crisis in the health care system even before the omicron variant is known to have spread through the area, according to hospital executives from Buffalo to Albany.

Upstate New York hospitals are overwhelmed as COVID-19 cases surge

The coronavirus outbreak in New York did not come directly via China, but from from infected people travelling to the US from Europe according to a latest study.

COVID-19 in New York came through Europe, not directly from China: Study

Dozens of New Yorkers were fined for violating coronavirus social distancing guidelines as they flocked to the city's beaches and parks to enjoy balmy weekend weather, police said Sunday.

New Yorkers fined for violating social distancing guidelines