Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hoping his latest executive order will alleviate the worries of families and students as they send their students back to school.

During a Tuesday afternoon press briefing, Cuomo announced that the state will require all school districts to share data with the state Department of Health on COVID-19 testing and infections, announcing his intention to sign an executive order that will require schools, local health departments, labs and all testing sites to properly collect and report all data related to the novel coronavirus. That data will need to include: positive cases by date of students and staff by school districts; whether schools are remote, in-person or hybrid, the number of students and staff on-site; the percentage of on-site students and staff who tested positive for the virus and the number of tests administered by the school, test type, lab used and lag time.

“This will tell you how you’re school is doing in maintaining their plan,” Cuomo said. “The state will maintain it and they’ll have to provide that information to the state. … The Department of Health will get information from three different sources so we’ll know if it’s right. It will tell you what school district your child is in and then will tell you everything you need to know about where that school district is with COVID, how many tests they’ve taken, how many they took yesterday, who is doing the test and what’s the turnaround on the test.”

The virtual “report card” will be located at schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov and will go live once those providers begin populating their information to the site.

Dr. David O’Rourke, chief executive officer and district superintendent for Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES said local districts are awaiting further guidance before providing such information.

“To be clear, school districts themselves in this region cannot provide tests themselves under their reopening plans,” O’Rourke said. “Testing and contact tracing comes from the county health departments — At this time, we are waiting for the New York State Department of Health to provide policy and guidance about how the Governor’s system of reporting will work.”

Chautauqua County announced 28 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, marking 114 cases that are currently active.

Of those new cases, two came from Dunkirk’s Fieldbrook Foods factory, while 18 came from the State University of New York at Fredonia as colleges across the country continue to see a surge in infections.

The college was one of seven institutions, both public and private, named by Cuomo during his Tuesday press briefing as having seen an outbreak, with 73 active cases as of Tuesday.

“Colleges across this country are seeing outbreaks,” Cuomo told reporters. “It’s to be expected. Young people are going back to college and want to study, study, study. Some students want to socialize. They come back to college, ‘I want to see my friends, I want to enjoy libations, I want to go to a bar, I want to go to a party.’ Those situations are increasing the spread because you have people coming from across the country and across the world to their colleges.”

As a result, the state’s Department of Health will mandate colleges to report when they have over 100 cases of the novel coronavirus and that they may be forced to continue education remotely for two weeks as a result — that policy had been implemented among SUNY schools, but is now extended statewide.

Cuomo also announced that Delaware, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia have been added to the list of high-risk states and territories from which visitors must quarantine for two weeks. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were removed from the list. The announcement comes after New York State’s COVID-19 infection rate has been below 1% for 32 straight days.

“Individuals coming from other states continue to be a problem, and today we’re adding four more states to New York’s travel advisory. We now have 35 high-risk states in this country, which is incredible,” Cuomo said. “We’re entering a new, different post-Labor Day phase. After Labor Day, people start to get back to work, schools are opening, activity is increasing, colleges are opening, you see traffic starting to increase. So we have to keep that in mind as we move forward and we need to remain vigilant and smart so that we don’t backslide.”

Previously “flagged” by the governor, the Western New York region’s infection rate decreased to 1% on Monday after having been at 2% on Saturday.