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

State Launches New Testing Site in Partnership with Good Samaritan Hospital in Town of Ramapo

Hospitalizations Down to 714 — New Low Since March 18

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

9 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday

Confirms 705 Additional Coronavirus Cases in New York State - Bringing Statewide Total to 408,886; New Cases in 42 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.

The Governor also announced the State has launched a new diagnostic testing site in the Town of Ramapo, a community heavily impacted by COVID-19 in partnership with Good Samaritan Hospital. The clinic, open today between noon and 5 p.m., is at the Town of Ramapo Cultural Arts Center at 64 North Main Street in Spring Valley. The clinic will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

"Every day, we see the hard work of New Yorkers reflected in our numbers, which continue to steadily decline even as every part of the state has entered Phase Four of our phased, data-driven reopening," Governor Cuomo said. "New Yorkers accomplished that - 19 million people working together because they cared about each other. If we are not careful, we could end up back right where we started, and all that hard work will have been for nothing. We cannot go back to the hell we experienced three months ago, so we must protect the progress we've made and continue to be New York Tough."

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 714 (-10)
Patients Newly Admitted - 81 (+21)
Hospital Counties - 31
Number ICU - 179 (+16)
Number ICU with Intubation - 96 (+5)
Total Discharges - 72,386 (+84)
Deaths - 9
Total Deaths - 25,068

Of the 67,659 tests conducted in New York State yesterday, 705, or 1.04 percent, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive tests over the last three days is as follows:

REGION	SUNDAY	MONDAY	TUESDAY
Capital Region	0.40%	1.40%	1.30%
Central New York	0.60%	1.00%	0.70%
Finger Lakes	0.70%	0.90%	1.20%
Long Island	1.00%	1.40%	1.00%
Mid-Hudson	0.90%	1.10%	0.90%
Mohawk Valley	0.30%	1.60%	0.90%
New York City	1.30%	1.40%	1.20%
North Country	0.60%	0.60%	0.50%
Southern Tier	1.90%	1.30%	0.60%
Western New York	0.70%	1.60%	0.90%

The Governor also confirmed 705 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 408,886 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 408,886 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	2,369	18
Allegany	72	0
Broome	930	13
Cattaraugus	147	0
Cayuga	134	3
Chautauqua	210	4
Chemung	156	1
Chenango	191	3
Clinton	114	0
Columbia	497	2
Cortland	77	4
Delaware	93	0
Dutchess	4,387	7
Erie	8,135	29
Essex	54	3
Franklin	42	0
Fulton	267	0
Genesee	258	0
Greene	272	0
Hamilton	6	0
Herkimer	211	3
Jefferson	113	1
Lewis	33	0
Livingston	161	1
Madison	388	1
Monroe	4,492	40
Montgomery	144	0
Nassau	42,765	36
Niagara	1,395	7
NYC	222,444	350
Oneida	1,975	13
Onondaga	3,326	14
Ontario	333	4
Orange	10,960	7
Orleans	288	0
Oswego	232	1
Otsego	101	1
Putnam	1,394	1
Rensselaer	668	10
Rockland	13,812	6
Saratoga	650	4
Schenectady	936	10
Schoharie	64	0
Schuyler	20	0
Seneca	80	0
St. Lawrence	250	3
Steuben	283	0
Suffolk	42,621	46
Sullivan	1,473	0
Tioga	175	1
Tompkins	209	0
Ulster	1,909	3
Warren	288	0
Washington	251	1
Wayne	236	4
Westchester	35,636	49
Wyoming	108	1
Yates	51	0

Yesterday, there were 9 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,068. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: