Updated: One confirmed case of coronavirus at West Hempstead synagogue

Rabbi Etan Ehrenfeld, of Young Israel of West Hempstead, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement from Young Israel President Arthur Cooperberg.

Synagogue leaders said they have since contacted Nassau County’s Department of Health. “As per their guidelines,” Cooperberg said, “I was told if you have been . . . within six feet of anyone who has tested positive for the coronavirus, you need to be in a mandatory quarantine for 14 days from the last time of contact.”

Young Israel closed shuls last weekend in response. “The rabbis intend to daven alone in our own homes,” the synagogue said in a statement. “No [prayer services] should take place in homes.”

Cooperberg also urged congregants to avoid gathering in public places and socializing in groups until further notice. He said that Ehrenfeld, who is now in quarantine, told synagogue officials that he took part in a prayer service in the synagogue’s beit midrash — a Jewish study hall — on the evening of March 6, and two more on March 7.

The county Health Department informed Cooperberg that if congregants were unsure about whether they were in contact with Ehrenfeld, they should self-quarantine. “We have consulted with our infectious disease physician, whose medical advice is to follow CDC guidelines, and not your personal physicians’,” Cooperberg said in another statement.

Ehrenfeld is also the assistant principal of Yeshiva Har Torah, a private K-8 Jewish religious school in Little Neck, Queens.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran ordered all Nassau County schools closed for two weeks beginning on Monday.

As of Tuesday, 139 Nassau County residents had tested positive for COVID-19, including more than 30 in the Town of Hempstead, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. One of them is an 81-year-old resident at the Bristal Assisted Living facility at North Hills, where staff members launched a thorough disinfecting and were investigating whether anyone who has come in contact with the resident was infected.

“On Friday, Gov. Cuomo announced that we’ll be ramping up testing, aiming to test 6,000 residents per day,” Curran said on Monday. “We’re working towards testing pods with tents and drive- through testing sites. That will help us achieve, if not exceed ,that testing margin of 6,000 residents tested per day.”

To reduce the spread of the virus, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut banned gatherings of more than 50 people, effective 8 p.m. Monday night, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who tweeted the news Monday morning.

Restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and casinos are closed. Restaurants take-out service will be allowed.

Anyone who is exhibiting flulike symptoms will not be allowed into senior facilities, and those facilities must screen visitors for potential exposure to the virus.