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

Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 3.25 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 1.18 Percent

Statewide Positivity Rate is 1.45 Percent

12 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 White House believes the U.S. cannot control this pandemic - but New York flattened the curve and we continue to control this virus," Governor Cuomo said. "The data shows that our micro-cluster strategy is working, by stopping small spreads before they become larger. The strategy relies on government being quick, competent and effective - and this is how we are going to control spread through the vaccination period. New York had the highest infection rate in the country, if not on the globe, but New Yorkers came together like no other community and were able to control the virus and flatten the curve."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 3.25 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 1.18 percent. Within the focus areas, 10,452 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 340 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 71,665 test results were reported, yielding 851 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	10/18- 10/24 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (10/24) % Positive	Yesterday (10/25) % Positive
Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive	5.86%	5.29%	4.44%	4.19%	4.45%	2.88%
Brooklyn yellow-zone focus area % positive	1.36%	1.93%	2.38%	2.43%	2.14%	3.10%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.27%	2.03%	2.40%	2.37%	2.93%	2.21%
Queens Far Rockaway yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.71%	2.70%	2.00%	2.11%	2.55%	2.02%
Rockland red-zone focus area % positive	9.77%	4.54%	3.65%	4.08%	2.78%	8.53%
Orange red-zone focus area % positive	12.41%	4.62%	2.64%	2.58%	1.21%	1.54%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.63%	4.05%	6.39%	6.65%	3.81%	7.77%
Steuben yellow-zone focus area % positive	7.82%	7.52%	4.42%	4.42%	6.02%	2.94%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	6.49%	7.12%	8.36%	7.96%	12.04%	9.85%
All focus area statewide % positive	3.18%	3.00%	3.27%	3.26%	3.18%	3.25%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.18%	1.16%	1.31%	1.34%	1.35%	1.45%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.01%	1.06%	1.06%	1.09%	1.06%	1.18%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 1,059 (+44)
Patients Newly Admitted - 116
Hospital Counties - 44
Number ICU - 237 (+10)
Number ICU with Intubation - 118 (+0)
Total Discharges - 79,162 (+70)
Deaths - 12
Total Deaths - 25,742

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

REGION	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
Capital Region	0.9%	0.8%	1.5%
Central New York	0.7%	1.2%	1.4%
Finger Lakes	1.7%	1.7%	2.3%
Long Island	1.6%	1.3%	1.2%
Mid-Hudson	1.9%	1.9%	2.4%
Mohawk Valley	1.0%	0.6%	0.7%
New York City	1.2%	1.4%	1.4%
North Country	1.8%	1.5%	1.4%
Southern Tier	1.1%	1.3%	1.0%
Western New York	1.1%	1.3%	1.3%

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

BOROUGH	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
Bronx	1.0%	1.8%	1.6%
Brooklyn	1.3%	1.5%	1.6%
Manhattan	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%
Queens	1.4%	1.4%	1.2%
Staten Island	1.9%	1.5%	2.0%

Of the 496,655 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	3,590	13
Allegany	287	16
Broome	3,415	47
Cattaraugus	462	1
Cayuga	373	9
Chautauqua	887	3
Chemung	1,662	22
Chenango	386	5
Clinton	242	2
Columbia	692	12
Cortland	524	14
Delaware	169	0
Dutchess	5,450	12
Erie	12,855	36
Essex	197	0
Franklin	80	1
Fulton	361	0
Genesee	381	1
Greene	495	5
Hamilton	16	0
Herkimer	389	2
Jefferson	203	1
Lewis	115	7
Livingston	298	18
Madison	559	0
Monroe	7,174	63
Montgomery	262	1
Nassau	49,377	65
Niagara	2,050	9
NYC	258,979	424
Oneida	2,686	5
Onondaga	5,337	28
Ontario	650	6
Orange	13,475	18
Orleans	399	6
Oswego	620	4
Otsego	393	3
Putnam	1,800	6
Rensselaer	1,088	8
Rockland	17,760	75
Saratoga	1,319	11
Schenectady	1,549	3
Schoharie	109	0
Schuyler	119	3
Seneca	140	0
St. Lawrence	390	4
Steuben	970	8
Suffolk	48,717	54
Sullivan	1,750	7
Tioga	589	17
Tompkins	606	3
Ulster	2,500	29
Warren	452	2
Washington	334	2
Wayne	471	23
Westchester	40,202	71
Wyoming	185	3
Yates	115	3

Yesterday, 12 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,742. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: