Student from Yeshiva University becomes New York City’s THIRD confirmed case of coronavirus as Manhattan lawyer, 50, remains in the hospital in a ‘severe condition’

A student from Yeshiva University has become New York City’s third confirmed case of coronavirus.  The student’s identity has not been released but the school announced on Wednesday that they had tested positive for COVID-19.  Their condition is unknown.  As a precaution, the school’s Washington Heights campus will shut down on Wednesday.  The diagnosis comes as a 50-year-old Manhattan lawyer remains in the hospital in a severe condition with the virus.  It remains unconfirmed whether he has any relation to the student. He has a son who attends Yeshiva.  Questions remain over how far he was able to travel and if he was able to come into contact with anyone before being quarantined.  The father-of-four commutes from his home in New Rochelle to Manhattan on the Metro-North Railroad. His wife and one of their four kids also works at the law firm where he does.  In addition to him and the student, a 39-year-old female health worker has also tested positive for the virus after returning recently from Iran.    A student at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights (pictured) has tested positive for coronavirus  The lawyer is being treated in the Intensive Care Unit at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (pictured) in… Read full this story

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