Governor Cuomo Announces New Record-Low COVID-19 Test Positivity Rate

17th Straight Day with Positivity Rate Below 1 Percent; 0.66 Percent of Yesterday's COVID-19 Tests were Positive

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New York City Health + Hospitals Will Set up New Testing Sites at JFK and LaGuardia Airports

7 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday

SLA and State Police Task Force Observes Violations of State Requirements at 34 Establishments This Weekend

Confirms 408 Additional Coronavirus Cases in New York State - Bringing Statewide Total to 430,145; New Cases in 27 Counties

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a new record-low COVID-19 test positivity rate of 0.66 percent. The number of new cases, percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny.gov.

The Governor also announced the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New York City Health + Hospitals will set up new testing sites at JFK and LaGuardia Airports to limit the spread of COVID-19 from visitors coming from out of state.

"Over the past couple of weeks, our infection rate has stayed below one percent. Congratulations to New Yorkers for their hard work in getting us to this point, but we must keep up that work and continue wearing our masks and socially distancing," Governor Cuomo said. "Our progress shows that this virus responds to science, not politics. It's a function of medicine and science and biology and should be treated that way."

This weekend, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 3,964 establishments in New York City and Long Island and observed 34 establishments that were not in compliance with state requirements. A county breakdown of this weekend's observed violations is below:

Bronx - 6
Brooklyn - 10
Manhattan - 8
Queens - 5
Nassau - 4
Suffolk - 1

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 482 (+10)
Patients Newly Admitted - 56
Hospital Counties - 32
Number ICU - 120 (+10)
Number ICU with Intubation - 54 (+4)
Total Discharges - 74,684 (+44)
Deaths - 7
Total Deaths - 25,295

Of the 62,031 test results reported to New York State yesterday, 408, or 0.66 percent, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

REGION	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
Capital Region	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%
Central New York	0.5%	0.2%	0.7%
Finger Lakes	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%
Long Island	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%
Mid-Hudson	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%
Mohawk Valley	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
New York City	0.7%	0.8%	0.7%
North Country	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%
Southern Tier	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%
Western New York	1.4%	1.8%	1.1%

The Governor also confirmed 408 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 430,145 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 430,145 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	2,701	2
Allegany	85	0
Broome	1,250	11
Cattaraugus	182	2
Cayuga	167	0
Chautauqua	289	0
Chemung	194	0
Chenango	223	0
Clinton	142	1
Columbia	562	0
Cortland	98	0
Delaware	109	0
Dutchess	4,777	10
Erie	9,491	26
Essex	100	0
Franklin	56	0
Fulton	309	0
Genesee	290	0
Greene	305	0
Hamilton	12	0
Herkimer	289	0
Jefferson	145	0
Lewis	47	0
Livingston	180	0
Madison	432	0
Monroe	5,330	13
Montgomery	196	2
Nassau	44,284	39
Niagara	1,576	1
NYC	232,334	214
Oneida	2,245	1
Onondaga	3,768	10
Ontario	381	0
Orange	11,343	9
Orleans	304	0
Oswego	282	0
Otsego	124	0
Putnam	1,475	2
Rensselaer	818	1
Rockland	14,139	10
Saratoga	816	1
Schenectady	1,182	3
Schoharie	69	0
Schuyler	24	0
Seneca	95	0
St. Lawrence	267	0
Steuben	310	0
Suffolk	44,519	21
Sullivan	1,495	0
Tioga	206	0
Tompkins	244	0
Ulster	2,134	7
Warren	315	0
Washington	266	0
Wayne	275	0
Westchester	36,710	21
Wyoming	124	1
Yates	60	0

Yesterday, there were 7 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,295. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: