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.

"Our state had one of the highest infection rates in the nation, if not the globe, and we now have the third lowest in the country. We cannot become complacent and risk going backwards," Governor Cuomo said. "We continue to closely monitor the data and handle micro-clusters as they happen, as well as watching what is happening around us as cases surge again across the country. As we head into winter months, it will be critical for all New Yorkers to keep up the good work of wearing our masks, washing our hands and remaining socially distant - and above all staying New York Tough."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 2.75 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 1.38 percent. Within the focus areas, 16,461 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 453 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 130,424 test results were reported, yielding 1,802 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 - 10/25 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (10/28) % Positive	Yesterday (10/29) % Positive
Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive	5.86%	5.29%	4.44%	3.87%	4.62%	3.62%
Brooklyn yellow-zone focus area % positive	1.36%	1.93%	2.38%	2.59%	2.80%	2.62%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.27%	2.03%	2.40%	2.74%	2.85%	2.52%
Queens Far Rockaway yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.71%	2.70%	2.00%	1.93%	2.79%	1.67%
Rockland red-zone focus area % positive	9.77%	4.54%	3.65%	3.56%	2.72%	3.33%
Orange orange-zone focus area % positive	12.41%	4.62%	2.64%	1.87%	2.63%	2.08%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.63%	4.05%	6.39%	6.49%	5.14%	3.61%
Steuben yellow-zone focus area % positive	7.82%	7.52%	4.42%	4.53%	5.45%	2.14%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	6.49%	7.12%	8.36%	6.63%	4.86%	2.06%
All focus area statewide % positive	3.18%	3.00%	3.27%	3.18%	3.24%	2.75%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.18%	1.16%	1.31%	1.49%	1.48%	1.53%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.01%	1.06%	1.06%	1.28%	1.25%	1.38%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 1,085 (+0)
Patients Newly Admitted - 133
Hospital Counties - 44
Number ICU - 243 (+6)
Number ICU with Intubation - 116 (+2)
Total Discharges - 79,621 (+120)
Deaths - 12
Total Deaths - 25,804

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

REGION	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY
Capital Region	1.1%	1.3%	1.1%
Central New York	1.0%	0.9%	2.4%
Finger Lakes	1.6%	1.6%	2.4%
Long Island	1.9%	1.5%	1.3%
Mid-Hudson	2.1%	1.9%	2.0%
Mohawk Valley	0.9%	0.7%	0.5%
New York City	1.6%	1.5%	1.6%
North Country	0.5%	0.7%	1.2%
Southern Tier	1.1%	1.1%	0.7%
Western New York	1.9%	2.5%	2.3%

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	1.9%	2.1%	1.6%
Brooklyn	1.6%	1.7%	1.5%
Manhattan	1.3%	0.7%	1.2%
Queens	1.5%	1.7%	1.7%
Staten Island	2.6%	2.4%	2.9%

Of the 505,431 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	3,705	45
Allegany	336	22
Broome	3,662	42
Cattaraugus	527	10
Cayuga	429	24
Chautauqua	976	21
Chemung	1,797	20
Chenango	413	5
Clinton	255	7
Columbia	723	2
Cortland	567	14
Delaware	181	3
Dutchess	5,525	17
Erie	13,262	101
Essex	199	0
Franklin	82	2
Fulton	365	2
Genesee	406	10
Greene	510	3
Hamilton	18	1
Herkimer	394	0
Jefferson	214	3
Lewis	139	5
Livingston	327	14
Madison	577	7
Monroe	7,493	107
Montgomery	272	2
Nassau	50,007	166
Niagara	2,108	20
NYC	262,510	903
Oneida	2,784	15
Onondaga	5,603	105
Ontario	697	18
Orange	13,743	71
Orleans	413	1
Oswego	639	8
Otsego	410	6
Putnam	1,833	8
Rensselaer	1,111	1
Rockland	18,110	86
Saratoga	1,383	18
Schenectady	1,591	12
Schoharie	113	1
Schuyler	139	4
Seneca	148	1
St. Lawrence	409	4
Steuben	1,041	16
Suffolk	49,300	102
Sullivan	1,800	14
Tioga	672	19
Tompkins	639	7
Ulster	2,538	7
Warren	461	0
Washington	340	2
Wayne	530	18
Westchester	40,681	127
Wyoming	196	4
Yates	128	2

Yesterday, 12 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,804. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: