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: