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

Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 4.22 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 2.01 Percent

Statewide Positivity Rate is 2.19 Percent

18 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.

"Cases are increasing across the country and the globe -- and there are several warning flags in New York. The challenge for our state has been to manage the increase and try to ensure the spikes in other states don't impact us too much," Governor Cuomo said. "We manage the increase by deploying the most aggressive testing in the country and our micro-cluster strategy - when we identify a small spread, we increase enforcement and restrictions in a targeted way. As we head into winter months, it's going to take the work of all New Yorkers to ensure we don't go back to where we were this spring - I understand COVID fatigue is real, but it's on all of us to stay vigilant and wear our masks, wash our hands, remain socially distant and stay New York Tough."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 4.22 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 2.01 percent. Within the focus areas, 13,488 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 569 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 149,803 test results were reported, yielding 3,018 positives. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the day prior, the current 7-day rolling average, and last two weeks is below.

FOCUS ZONE	10/18- 10/24 % Positive	10/25- 10/31 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (11/5) % Positive	Yesterday (11/6) % Positive
Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive	4.15%	4.78%	3.26%	2.93%	4.64%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.40%	2.65%	2.82%	3.20%	3.17%
Rockland orange-zone focus area % positive	3.65%	4.08%	3.07%	2.65%	2.49%
Orange yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.64%	2.37%	2.47%	8.28%	1.04%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	6.39%	6.00%	4.03%	4.15%	3.52%
Steuben yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.42%	4.99%	4.11%	1.75%	3.63%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	8.36%	5.52%	6.92%	7.33%	6.29%
Westchester yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.25%	6.23%	7.89%	4.39%	8.00%
All focus area statewide % positive	3.58%	3.57%	3.40%	3.33%	4.22%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.31%	1.54%	1.93%	1.99%	2.19%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.06%	1.34%	1.68%	1.84%	2.01%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 1,381 (+60)
Patients Newly Admitted - 213
Hospital Counties - 43
Number ICU - 308 (+23)
Number ICU with Intubation - 138 (+9)
Total Discharges - 80,494 (+126)
Deaths - 18
Total Deaths - 25,928

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

REGION	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Capital Region	1.3%	1.7%	1.7%
Central New York	2.1%	2.5%	2.6%
Finger Lakes	3.7%	3.2%	3.2%
Long Island	2.0%	1.9%	2.5%
Mid-Hudson	2.4%	2.5%	2.5%
Mohawk Valley	0.8%	1.2%	1.5%
New York City	1.6%	1.9%	1.8%
North Country	0.6%	1.4%	1.6%
Southern Tier	1.1%	1.0%	1.2%
Western New York	3.3%	3.3%	4.3%

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

BOROUGH	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Bronx	1.9%	2.2%	2.0%
Brooklyn	1.7%	2.0%	1.8%
Manhattan	1.2%	1.0%	1.3%
Queens	1.6%	2.0%	2.1%
Staten Island	3.0%	3.5%	3.0%

Of the 525,608 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	4,024	82
Allegany	455	41
Broome	3,982	55
Cattaraugus	599	8
Cayuga	518	22
Chautauqua	1,103	9
Chemung	2,096	50
Chenango	455	6
Clinton	297	5
Columbia	789	7
Cortland	633	11
Delaware	227	5
Dutchess	5,739	29
Erie	14,717	379
Essex	216	3
Franklin	127	13
Fulton	372	0
Genesee	465	15
Greene	552	25
Hamilton	19	0
Herkimer	443	9
Jefferson	262	2
Lewis	173	2
Livingston	402	9
Madison	643	16
Monroe	8,616	218
Montgomery	295	3
Nassau	51,418	254
Niagara	2,313	39
NYC	269,828	1,165
Oneida	3,039	46
Onondaga	6,396	139
Ontario	794	16
Orange	14,301	80
Orleans	434	5
Oswego	734	23
Otsego	442	2
Putnam	1,937	16
Rensselaer	1,184	9
Rockland	18,854	98
Saratoga	1,520	17
Schenectady	1,701	14
Schoharie	121	1
Schuyler	178	6
Seneca	171	4
St. Lawrence	471	10
Steuben	1,200	24
Suffolk	50,469	259
Sullivan	1,891	9
Tioga	823	31
Tompkins	690	12
Ulster	2,607	8
Warren	480	5
Washington	380	3
Wayne	655	16
Westchester	41,954	234
Wyoming	243	13
Yates	161	5

Yesterday, 18 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,928. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: