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

Statewide Positivity Rate is 1.20 Percent

Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 3.20 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas Included is 0.96 Percent

15 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday

New Community Testing Sites Opening Tomorrow in Cortland County

Governor Cuomo updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

"We've been adjusting our focus in the micro-clusters - after 14 days of data, we rearranged the restrictions in Queens, Brooklyn, and we added focuses to Broome and Chemung," Governor Cuomo said. "Through the fall, we will see micro-clusters come and go - they can literally be generated by a couple of events that violated rules. We might all be feeling COVID-fatigue, but we cannot afford to go backwards: We must all keep washing our hands, wearing our masks and remaining socially distant to protect the progress we've made in New York."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 3.20 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 0.96 percent. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the week to date, and last two weeks is below:

FOCUS ZONE	10/4- 10/10 % Positive	10/11 - 10/17 % Positive	Week to date (10/18 - 10/21) % Positive	Yesterday (10/21)% Positive
Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive	5.86%	5.29%	5.13%	4.61%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow focus area % positive	3.71%	2.58%	2.43%	1.9%
Queens Far Rockaway yellow focus area % positive	2.88%	2.08%	2.01%	1.78%
Rockland red-zone focus area % positive	9.77%	4.54%	4.18%	2.02%
Orange red-zone focus area % positive	12.41%	4.62%	4.55%	5.32%
Broome focus area % positive	3.63%	4.05%	7.63%	9.23%
Steuben focus area % positive	7.82%	7.52%	4.10%	5.11%
Chemung focus area % positive	6.49%	7.12%	9.33%	9.13%
All focus area % positive	3.18%	3.00%	3.67%	3.16%
Statewide % positive with red-zone focus areas included	1.18%	1.16%	1.35%	1.20%
Statewide % positive without red-zone focus areas included	1.01%	1.06%	1.03%	0.96%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

· Patient Hospitalization - 986 (+36)

· Patients Newly Admitted - 166

· Hospital Counties - 45

· Number ICU - 209 (+8)

· Number ICU with Intubation - 106 (+3)

· Total Discharges - 78,753 (+108)

· Deaths - 15

· Total Deaths - 25,694

The Governor also announced the Department of Health has partnered with Cortland County and SUNY to open new rapid testing sites, starting tomorrow, in Cortland County for free community testing. Testing is open to the public and will be available noon - 4:30 PM Friday and 9 AM - 5 PM Saturday and Sunday.

Testing sites opening Friday along with links for residents to make appointments are listed below:

Cortland Jr. Sr. High School

8 Valley View Drive

Cortland, NY 13045

Make an appointment here.

Homer Intermediate School

58 Clinton Street

Homer, NY 13077

Make an appointment here.

Marathon High School

1 E. Main Street

Marathon, NY 13803

Make an appointment here.

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

REGION	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Capital Region	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%
Central New York	2.1%	1.9%	1.0%
Finger Lakes	1.4%	1.7%	1.4%
Long Island	0.9%	1.6%	1.0%
Mid-Hudson	1.7%	2.6%	1.5%
Mohawk Valley	0.4%	0.5%	0.6%
New York City	1.3%	1.6%	1.1%
North Country	1.3%	0.6%	0.5%
Southern Tier	1.8%	1.3%	1.5%
Western New York	1.2%	2.0%	1.5%

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

BOROUGH	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Bronx	0.9%	1.3%	1.1%
Brooklyn	1.8%	2.2%	1.2%
Manhattan	1.0%	0.9%	0.8%
Queens	1.4%	1.7%	1.3%
Staten Island	1.5%	2.3%	1.1%

Of the 490,134 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	3,488	28
Allegany	243	19
Broome	3,166	106
Cattaraugus	442	8
Cayuga	342	10
Chautauqua	858	13
Chemung	1,456	75
Chenango	347	10
Clinton	224	4
Columbia	663	4
Cortland	475	24
Delaware	164	3
Dutchess	5,382	16
Erie	12,650	76
Essex	195	1
Franklin	79	1
Fulton	360	0
Genesee	373	1
Greene	487	5
Hamilton	16	0
Herkimer	376	2
Jefferson	194	1
Lewis	64	2
Livingston	261	5
Madison	545	4
Monroe	6,917	67
Montgomery	259	2
Nassau	48,941	77
Niagara	1,997	11
NYC	256,576	530
Oneida	2,625	8
Onondaga	5,170	49
Ontario	617	14
Orange	13,303	45
Orleans	378	2
Oswego	606	7
Otsego	374	5
Putnam	1,768	13
Rensselaer	1,058	11
Rockland	17,524	71
Saratoga	1,244	15
Schenectady	1,522	6
Schoharie	101	0
Schuyler	109	5
Seneca	135	4
St. Lawrence	376	4
Steuben	915	17
Suffolk	48,308	74
Sullivan	1,709	15
Tioga	502	24
Tompkins	579	16
Ulster	2,436	8
Warren	444	3
Washington	326	0
Wayne	400	7
Westchester	39,789	95
Wyoming	174	2
Yates	102	3

Yesterday, 15 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,694. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: