Governor Cuomo Updates New Yorkers on State's Progress During COVID-19 Pandemic

Hospitalizations Down to 716—New Low Since March 18

1.05 Percent of Yesterday's COVID-19 Tests were Positive

8 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday

Confirms 519 Additional Coronavirus Cases in New York State - Bringing Statewide Total to 407,326; New Cases in 34 Counties

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The number of new cases, percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny.gov.

"We did the impossible as New Yorkers - we stepped up and conquered the COVID-19 virus and now we have to protect the progress that we have made," Governor Cuomo said. "One of the main threats to our progress is the number of congregations that we're seeing across the state, but especially in downstate, primarily of young people, and we saw it again over the weekend. It is a problem, and I'm telling you in plain New York speak that it's stupid and it has to stop. This not just morality, these restaurants and bars are breaking the law and they are going to make it bad for everyone else because if this continues we're going to have to roll back the reopening plan and close all bars and restaurants."

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Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 716 (-6)
Patients Newly Admitted - 58 (-21)
Hospital Counties - 31
Number ICU - 158 (-2)
Number ICU with Intubation - 93 (-3)
Total Discharges - 72,229 (+68)
Deaths - 8
Total Deaths - 25,056

Of the 49,342 tests conducted in New York State yesterday, 519, or 1.05 percent, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive tests over the last three days is as follows:

REGION	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
Capital Region	0.7%	0.8%	0.40%
Central New York	0.9%	1.1%	0.60%
Finger Lakes	0.9%	0.8%	0.70%
Long Island	1.0%	0.9%	1.00%
Mid-Hudson	0.9%	0.6%	0.90%
Mohawk Valley	1.4%	1.5%	0.30%
New York City	1.3%	1.3%	1.30%
North Country	0.4%	0.4%	0.60%
Southern Tier	0.7%	1.2%	1.90%
Western New York	1.3%	1.0%	0.70%

The Governor also confirmed 519 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 407,326 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 407,326 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	2,322	4
Allegany	71	0
Broome	902	19
Cattaraugus	145	0
Cayuga	131	2
Chautauqua	194	0
Chemung	155	1
Chenango	184	2
Clinton	113	0
Columbia	492	0
Cortland	69	0
Delaware	93	0
Dutchess	4,376	0
Erie	8,046	11
Essex	51	0
Franklin	40	0
Fulton	267	0
Genesee	258	1
Greene	272	0
Hamilton	6	0
Herkimer	206	0
Jefferson	106	1
Lewis	33	0
Livingston	159	1
Madison	384	1
Monroe	4,422	21
Montgomery	143	0
Nassau	42,678	56
Niagara	1,384	2
NYC	221,703	284
Oneida	1,942	2
Onondaga	3,290	12
Ontario	326	2
Orange	10,938	7
Orleans	288	0
Oswego	229	0
Otsego	98	0
Putnam	1,392	1
Rensselaer	653	2
Rockland	13,798	5
Saratoga	639	2
Schenectady	915	0
Schoharie	62	0
Schuyler	20	4
Seneca	80	0
St. Lawrence	246	4
Steuben	282	1
Suffolk	42,496	30
Sullivan	1,473	0
Tioga	173	3
Tompkins	209	1
Ulster	1,901	0
Warren	287	0
Washington	250	0
Wayne	228	1
Westchester	35,551	36
Wyoming	104	0
Yates	51	0

Yesterday, there were 8 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,056. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: