#Brooklyn neighborhood Sunset Park sees ‘uptick’ in COVID-19 cases

Sunset Park in Brooklyn is seeing an “uptick” in coronavirus cases — with 228 people testing positive for COVID-19 in the past two weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

The mayor said the pocket of positive cases was found through “hyperlocal testing” by the city’s Test and Trace Corps.

“It’s over a very limited period of time, it’s a very limited number of cases,” de Blasio said at his daily press briefing. “We now have a warning light. We have a sign there’s something going on we want to know more about.”

He said Test and Trace Corps workers will be “saturating” the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of 38,000 households with fliers, robocalls and door knocks with the simple message: “Everyone needs to get tested.”

“We want to get everyone tested as quickly as possible to see what is going on, if there’s something further we need to do,” he said.

Newly appointed city Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi said over the past two weeks, 3,300 residents in Sunset Park have been swabbed for COVID-19, with 228 tests coming back positive.

“The Sunset Park community is going to see even more of us in the days ahead,” he said.

Citywide, 1 percent of residents have tested positive for coronavirus.

New York City has recorded at least 228,343 cases of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University data.