November 2, 2020
Albany, NY

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

Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 3.50 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 1.48 Percent

Statewide Positivity Rate is 1.70 Percent

14 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.

"New York is in the midst of a sea of division and a national COVID surge. All around us, the COVID infection rate is going up. You see it in states all across the nation, in countries around the globe, and in contiguous states," Governor Cuomo said. "So we should be on high alert and we should be even more diligent, because the virus spreads across state boundaries, and we're in the party season. All I can do is warn New Yorkers and ask them to remember what worked for us: discipline and smarts. And we have to keep it up because these are dangerous times. We're going to stay with the micro-cluster approach because it has worked, but these are dangerous times all around and we need to stay vigilant."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 3.50 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 1.48 percent. Within the focus areas, 10,503 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 368 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 85,598 test results were reported, yielding 1,265 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

10/25- 10/31 % Positive

Current 7-day rolling average

Day Prior (10/31) % Positive

Yesterday (11/1) % Positive

Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive

5.86%

5.29%

4.44%

4.14%

4.20%

4.25%

5.07%

Brooklyn yellow-zone focus area % positive

1.36%

1.93%

2.38%

2.68%

2.65%

2.67%

2.53%

Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive

2.27%

2.03%

2.40%

2.68%

2.68%

2.88%

2.77%

Queens Far Rockaway yellow-zone focus area % positive

2.71%

2.70%

2.00%

2.16%

1.99%

1.17%

3.54%

Rockland red-zone focus area % positive

9.77%

4.54%

3.65%

4.33%

3.74%

4.20%

4.84%

Orange orange-zone focus area % positive

12.41%

4.62%

2.64%

2.57%

2.38%

3.75%

2.52%

Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive

3.63%

4.05%

6.39%

4.25%

6.26%

2.31%

6.14%

Steuben yellow-zone focus area % positive

7.82%

7.52%

4.42%

4.50%

4.36%

9.71%

5.31%

Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive

6.49%

7.12%

8.36%

6.10%

5.84%

5.16%

12.73%

All focus area statewide % positive

3.18%

3.00%

3.27%

3.23%

3.20%

3.10%

3.50%

Statewide % positive with all focus areas included

1.18%

1.16%

1.31%

1.54%

1.57%

1.51%

1.70%

Statewide % positive without all focus areas included

1.01%

1.06%

1.06%

1.34%

1.36%

1.36%

1.48%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

  • Patient Hospitalization - 1,151 (+26)
  • Patients Newly Admitted - 130
  • Hospital Counties - 50
  • Number ICU - 276 (+17)
  • Number ICU with Intubation - 116 (-1)
  • Total Discharges - 79,915 (+84)
  • Deaths - 14
  • Total Deaths - 25,838

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%

1.0%

1.5%

Central New York

1.9%

1.7%

2.2%

Finger Lakes

1.9%

2.3%

2.5%

Long Island

1.3%

1.4%

1.4%

Mid-Hudson

2.2%

2.2%

2.6%

Mohawk Valley

1.2%

0.8%

1.7%

New York City

1.3%

1.4%

1.5%

North Country

1.5%

1.5%

2.4%

Southern Tier

1.0%

0.8%

1.0%

Western New York

2.5%

2.6%

2.1%

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

1.6%

1.8%

1.5%

Brooklyn

1.4%

1.4%

1.8%

Manhattan

0.8%

0.9%

0.9%

Queens

1.5%

1.7%

1.8%

Staten Island

2.1%

2.9%

2.5%

Of the 511,368 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County

Total Positive

New Positive

Albany

3,771

21

Allegany

364

16

Broome

3,759

21

Cattaraugus

550

1

Cayuga

456

3

Chautauqua

1,023

6

Chemung

1,890

38

Chenango

428

3

Clinton

273

3

Columbia

739

3

Cortland

592

3

Delaware

193

1

Dutchess

5,585

20

Erie

13,584

53

Essex

204

1

Franklin

88

1

Fulton

367

0

Genesee

413

2

Greene

517

1

Hamilton

19

0

Herkimer

407

8

Jefferson

231

9

Lewis

153

5

Livingston

356

6

Madison

597

4

Monroe

7,817

112

Montgomery

276

3

Nassau

50,407

113

Niagara

2,155

18

NYC

264,796

641

Oneida

2,867

16

Onondaga

5,795

33

Ontario

721

11

Orange

13,933

44

Orleans

415

2

Oswego

661

13

Otsego

422

1

Putnam

1,869

8

Rensselaer

1,131

7

Rockland

18,353

88

Saratoga

1,438

15

Schenectady

1,631

9

Schoharie

116

1

Schuyler

155

6

Seneca

152

3

St. Lawrence

428

5

Steuben

1,109

22

Suffolk

49,604

66

Sullivan

1,825

7

Tioga

717

18

Tompkins

659

3

Ulster

2,559

3

Warren

469

1

Washington

353

3

Wayne

573

12

Westchester

41,061

115

Wyoming

205

2

Yates

137

3

Yesterday, 14 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,838. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

Deaths by County of Residence

County

New Deaths

Allegany

1

Bronx

1

Broome

1

Chemung

2

Erie

1

Kings

4

Rockland

1

St. Lawrence

1

Steuben

1

Westchester

1

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Albany: (518) 474 - 8418
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