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

Statewide Positivity Rate is 1.15 Percent

Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 2.31 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas Included is 0.98 Percent

11 COVID-19 Deaths in New York State Yesterday

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

"The experts told us we would see infection rates increase through the fall, and we've seen that as cases rise again across the nation. In New York, we are attacking micro-clusters where we see them, and that will be our strategy through this season as we see micro-clusters come and go," Governor Cuomo said. "Our progress is thanks to the New Yorkers who rose to the occasion and came together like no other community. Protecting that progress is going to depend on all of us keeping up that good work to wear our masks, wash our hands, remain socially distant - and stay New York Tough."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 2.31 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 0.98 percent. Within the focus areas, 18,563 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 428 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 122,945 test results were reported, yielding 1,209 positives. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the day prior, the current 7-day rolling average, and last two weeks is below:

FOCUS ZONE	10/4- 10/10 % Positive	10/11 - 10/17 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (10/21)% Positive	Yesterday (10/22)% Positive
Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive	5.86%	5.29%	4.57%	4.61%	2.51%
Brooklyn yellow-zone focus area % positive	1.36%	1.93%	2.39%	2.05%	1.90%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.71%	2.58%	2.22%	1.9%	1.62%
Queens Far Rockaway yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.88%	2.08%	1.97%	1.78%	1.37%
Rockland red-zone focus area % positive	9.77%	4.54%	3.73%	2.02%	2.17%
Orange red-zone focus area % positive	12.41%	4.62%	3.10%	5.32%	1.62%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.63%	4.05%	6.30%	9.23%	5.34%
Steuben yellow-zone focus area % positive	7.82%	7.52%	4.65%	5.11%	4.79%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	6.49%	7.12%	8.13%	9.13%	5.70%
All focus area (red, orange, yellow) statewide % positive	3.18%	3.00%	3.21%	3.16%	2.31%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.18%	1.16%	1.23%	1.20%	1.15%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.01%	1.06%	0.96%	0.96%	0.98%

The Governor also noted that localized areas that are seeing outbreaks are also seeing hospital admission increases, and remain the main driver of new hospital admissions for the state. Nearly 50 percent of all new daily hospital admissions in New York State over the past 14 days have been from Brooklyn, Queens, Rockland, Orange, and counties along the Pennsylvania border where we have "micro-cluster" focus zone areas.

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 1,023 (+37)
Patients Newly Admitted - 149
Hospital Counties - 46
Number ICU - 223 (+14)
Number ICU with Intubation - 109 (+3)
Total Discharges - 78,854 (+101)
Deaths - 11
Total Deaths - 25,705

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

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

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

BOROUGH	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY
Bronx	1.3%	1.1%	1.1%
Brooklyn	2.2%	1.2%	1.0%
Manhattan	0.9%	0.8%	0.9%
Queens	1.7%	1.3%	1.1%
Staten Island	2.3%	1.1%	1.0%

Of the 491,771 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	3,516	28
Allegany	264	21
Broome	3,262	96
Cattaraugus	447	5
Cayuga	351	9
Chautauqua	868	10
Chemung	1,510	54
Chenango	358	11
Clinton	232	8
Columbia	667	4
Cortland	488	13
Delaware	166	2
Dutchess	5,403	21
Erie	12,705	55
Essex	195	0
Franklin	79	0
Fulton	361	1
Genesee	377	4
Greene	488	1
Hamilton	16	0
Herkimer	380	4
Jefferson	197	3
Lewis	68	4
Livingston	266	5
Madison	552	7
Monroe	6,992	75
Montgomery	261	2
Nassau	49,042	101
Niagara	2,016	19
NYC	257,147	571
Oneida	2,644	19
Onondaga	5,222	52
Ontario	629	12
Orange	13,342	39
Orleans	379	1
Oswego	607	1
Otsego	378	4
Putnam	1,780	12
Rensselaer	1,064	6
Rockland	17,581	57
Saratoga	1,265	21
Schenectady	1,530	8
Schoharie	104	3
Schuyler	111	2
Seneca	139	4
St. Lawrence	379	3
Steuben	929	14
Suffolk	48,399	91
Sullivan	1,714	5
Tioga	512	10
Tompkins	585	6
Ulster	2,450	14
Warren	445	1
Washington	327	1
Wayne	408	8
Westchester	39,890	101
Wyoming	177	3
Yates	107	5

Yesterday, 11 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,705. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: