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.

"We are seeing a rising tide of COVID nationally and internationally. The rate of increase is less in New York, but it is an increase," Governor Cuomo said. "We don't have the same problem that other states have, but we're seeing an increase and the increase is continuing. We know the factors that contribute to spread, like COVID fatigue, winter, restaurants, gyms, and living room family spread. What's going to happen? Will we shut down and will we have more restrictions? What has worked for New York from day one is it's a pure consequence of science. There's no political decision making, no ideological decision making. Look at the numbers, and if the numbers are increasing and if they're not slowing, then you have to restrict activity. Our actions today determine our positivity rate tomorrow, so follow the public health law - wear a mask and adhere to gathering limits, and localities need to do the enforcement."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 4.83 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 2.57 percent. Within the focus areas, 28,831 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 1,393 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 155,331 test results were reported, yielding 3,995 positives. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the day prior, the current 7-day rolling average, and last two weeks is below:

FOCUS ZONE	10/25- 10/31 % Positive	11/1- 11/7 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (11/12) % Positive	Yesterday (11/13) % Positive
Brooklyn orange-zone focus area % positive	4.78%	3.33%	4.22%	4.58%	3.00%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.65%	2.96%	3.55%	3.02%	3.39%
Rockland yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.08%	2.96%	2.11%	1.80%	1.45%
Orange yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.37%	1.96%	1.77%	2.40%	4.05%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	6.00%	4.13%	3.38%	2.94%	2.62%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	5.52%	6.45%	4.31%	2.85%	5.80%
Westchester orange-zone focus area % positive	6.20%	7.46%	9.62%	11.07%	12.06%
Erie yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.86%	5.35%	7.45%	6.00%	8.17%
Monroe yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.22%	4.06%	5.57%	5.90%	5.09%
Onondaga yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.83%	4.68%	6.58%	5.41%	5.90%
Staten Island yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.58%	3.00%	4.26%	4.87%	4.61%
Tioga yellow-zone focus area % positive	5.83%	10.03%	10.32%	6.76%	5.88%
All focus area statewide % positive	3.04%	3.83%	4.90%	4.58%	4.83%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.54%	1.95%	2.81%	2.65%	2.92%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.34%	1.81%	2.40%	2.29%	2.57%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 1,788 (+51)
Patients Newly Admitted - 259
Hospital Counties - 50
Number ICU - 367 (+36)
Number ICU with Intubation - 146 (+9)
Total Discharges - 81,585 (+195)
Deaths - 24
Total Deaths - 26,103

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

REGION	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Capital Region	2.0%	2.0%	2.0%
Central New York	4.1%	2.4%	3.9%
Finger Lakes	4.8%	5.1%	3.8%
Long Island	3.1%	3.3%	3.3%
Mid-Hudson	3.7%	3.5%	3.9%
Mohawk Valley	2.2%	1.8%	4.6%
New York City	2.4%	2.5%	2.5%
North Country	1.5%	1.4%	2.5%
Southern Tier	1.6%	0.9%	1.1%
Western New York	5.5%	3.9%	4.6%

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	2.6%	3.0%	2.8%
Brooklyn	2.3%	2.2%	2.1%
Manhattan	1.9%	1.7%	1.8%
Queens	2.8%	2.8%	2.9%
Staten Island	3.7%	4.6%	4.4%

Of the 556,551 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	4,514	89
Allegany	628	39
Broome	4,362	59
Cattaraugus	675	14
Cayuga	627	18
Chautauqua	1,234	24
Chemung	2,331	51
Chenango	495	6
Clinton	372	16
Columbia	877	7
Cortland	723	11
Delaware	276	5
Dutchess	6,144	70
Erie	17,469	448
Essex	229	5
Franklin	184	10
Fulton	389	7
Genesee	597	13
Greene	583	5
Hamilton	25	3
Herkimer	485	5
Jefferson	316	9
Lewis	234	15
Livingston	481	15
Madison	709	13
Monroe	10,329	255
Montgomery	319	12
Nassau	53,688	417
Niagara	2,678	62
NYC	280,599	1,797
Oneida	3,530	116
Onondaga	7,650	229
Ontario	939	27
Orange	15,031	121
Orleans	508	10
Oswego	954	57
Otsego	460	1
Putnam	2,134	43
Rensselaer	1,304	26
Rockland	19,723	156
Saratoga	1,666	24
Schenectady	1,860	32
Schoharie	141	0
Schuyler	218	8
Seneca	205	3
St. Lawrence	554	8
Steuben	1,394	33
Suffolk	52,942	449
Sullivan	1,969	13
Tioga	940	10
Tompkins	799	13
Ulster	2,768	30
Warren	507	4
Washington	400	5
Wayne	749	14
Westchester	44,093	437
Wyoming	340	8
Yates	201	11

Yesterday, 24 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 26,103. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Allegany	1
Bronx	2
Chemung	2
Erie	4
Kings	3
Manhattan	2
Monroe	1
Montgomery	1
Niagara	2
Queens	1
Richmond	1
Rockland	1
Westchester	3