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

Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 3.04 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 1.70 Percent

Statewide Positivity Rate is 1.86 Percent

24 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.

"Every expert told us come the fall cases would go up, and that's what's happening around the country and the globe," Governor Cuomo said. "We got ready here in New York: we have our micro-cluster strategy and we have our additional testing. That's why we have the third lowest positivity rate in the country. But COVID fatigue is creeping up and there are serious caution flags in Western New York, the Finger Lakes, and in other communities across the state, so it is more important than ever that we be vigilant. Wear masks, wash your hands, adhere to social distancing rules, and enforce the public health guidelines that are there to save lives."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 3.04 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 1.70 percent. Within the focus areas, 19,814 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 602 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 141,205 test results were reported, yielding 2,395 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 (11/3) % Positive	Yesterday (11/4) % Positive
Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive	5.86%	5.29%	4.44%	4.14%	3.17%	2.19%	2.96%
Brooklyn yellow-zone focus area % positive	1.36%	1.93%	2.38%	2.68%	2.59%	2.62%	3.06%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.27%	2.03%	2.40%	2.68%	2.57%	2.53%	2.68%
Queens Far Rockaway yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.71%	2.70%	2.00%	2.16%	2.08%	2.84%	1.63%
Rockland red-zone focus area % positive	9.77%	4.54%	3.65%	4.33%	3.82%	3.43%	3.81%
Orange orange-zone focus area % positive	12.41%	4.62%	2.64%	2.57%	2.29%	0.88%	0.75%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.63%	4.05%	6.39%	4.25%	3.94%	5.68%	3.47%
Steuben yellow-zone focus area % positive	7.82%	7.52%	4.42%	4.50%	4.67%	2.86%	3.68%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	6.49%	7.12%	8.36%	6.10%	5.70%	4.51%	6.64%
All focus area statewide % positive	3.18%	3.00%	3.27%	3.23%	2.93%	2.69%	3.04%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.18%	1.16%	1.31%	1.54%	1.64%	1.59%	1.86%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.01%	1.06%	1.06%	1.34%	1.48%	1.42%	1.70%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 1,277 (+24)
Patients Newly Admitted - 164
Hospital Counties - 46
Number ICU - 268 (-16)
Number ICU with Intubation - 128 (-1)
Total Discharges - 80,225 (+116)
Deaths - 24
Total Deaths - 25,892

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

REGION	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Capital Region	1.2%	1.2%	1.3%
Central New York	2.5%	2.7%	2.1%
Finger Lakes	2.3%	2.9%	3.7%
Long Island	1.8%	1.1%	2.0%
Mid-Hudson	2.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Mohawk Valley	1.6%	0.6%	0.8%
New York City	1.5%	1.3%	1.6%
North Country	1.7%	1.9%	0.6%
Southern Tier	1.2%	1.1%	1.1%
Western New York	3.0%	3.4%	3.3%

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

BOROUGH	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Bronx	2.2%	1.4%	1.9%
Brooklyn	1.4%	1.6%	1.7%
Manhattan	1.1%	0.9%	1.2%
Queens	1.5%	1.2%	1.6%
Staten Island	2.4%	2.1%	3.0%

Of the 518,812 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	3,877	32
Allegany	389	10
Broome	3,884	49
Cattaraugus	582	14
Cayuga	486	12
Chautauqua	1,081	30
Chemung	1,996	48
Chenango	443	11
Clinton	288	6
Columbia	774	11
Cortland	613	9
Delaware	213	8
Dutchess	5,669	27
Erie	14,123	215
Essex	212	2
Franklin	105	9
Fulton	370	1
Genesee	441	13
Greene	523	0
Hamilton	19	0
Herkimer	424	6
Jefferson	249	8
Lewis	167	2
Livingston	375	7
Madison	616	7
Monroe	8,237	212
Montgomery	283	0
Nassau	50,918	216
Niagara	2,231	40
NYC	267,460	1,067
Oneida	2,946	29
Onondaga	6,122	121
Ontario	758	13
Orange	14,135	80
Orleans	422	1
Oswego	689	11
Otsego	437	4
Putnam	1,896	13
Rensselaer	1,161	19
Rockland	18,683	102
Saratoga	1,482	24
Schenectady	1,666	16
Schoharie	119	2
Schuyler	166	2
Seneca	163	8
St. Lawrence	449	7
Steuben	1,159	14
Suffolk	50,033	179
Sullivan	1,862	10
Tioga	775	25
Tompkins	675	11
Ulster	2,588	13
Warren	474	3
Washington	361	3
Wayne	622	20
Westchester	41,542	182
Wyoming	226	7
Yates	153	6

Yesterday, 24 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,892. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Allegany	1
Bronx	1
Broome	4
Cattaraugus	1
Erie	1
Kings	8
Manhattan	1
Monroe	1
Queens	2
Rensselaer	1
Schenectady	2
Westchester	1