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

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Governor also detailed testing results from areas where the state is seeing upticks in cases over the past weeks. In "Red Zone" focus areas included as part of the Governor's Cluster Action Initiative, the positivity rate for test results reported yesterday is 4.95 percent. These "Red Zone" focus areas are home to 2.8 percent of state's population, yet have had 18 percent of all positive cases reported this week to New York State.

"Our numbers remain good news, even as clusters appear in certain areas of the state. Our testing system is so advanced that we were able to track clusters to 2.8 percent of the state's population and attack the virus within that population," Governor Cuomo said. "It's going to take the work of all of us now to make sure we don't go backwards on our hard-fought progress. We must all continue to wear our masks, wash our hands, remain socially distant, and above all, stay New York Tough."

Within the "Red Zone" focus areas, 3,901 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 193 positives or a 4.95 percent positivity rate. In the remainder of the state, not counting these "Red Zone" focus areas, 130,678 tests results were reported, yielding 1,254 positives or 0.96 percent positivity rate.

The "Red Zone" focus areas are home to 2.8 percent of state population yet had 13.3 percent of all positive test results reported to the state yesterday, and 17.9 percent of all positive case results reported to the state this week. The positivity rate for test results this past week in the "Red Zone" areas has been 6.17 percent, down slightly from the prior week as shown in the charts below.

Yesterday, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 722 establishments in New York City and Long Island and observed 8 establishments that were not in compliance with state requirements. A county breakdown of yesterday's observed violations is below:

• Nassau - 2
• Suffolk - 6

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

• Patient Hospitalization - 826 (+47)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 142
• Hospital Counties - 39
• Number ICU - 179 (+11)
• Number ICU with Intubation - 81 (+3)
• Total Discharges - 77,514 (+82)
• Deaths - 8
• Total Deaths - 25,569

Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

Each New York City borough's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

Of the 473,143 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

Yesterday, there were 8 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,569. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: