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

Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 4.89 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 2.82 Percent

Statewide Positivity Rate is 3.18 Percent

29 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.

"The number of cases across the country and in New York are only continuing to climb. Despite our success in managing the spread, New York is not immune to this national surge of COVID," Governor Cuomo said. "Our micro-cluster strategy and testing capacity will help us through this new season, but ensuring we don't go back to where we were in the spring is going to depend on our behavior. We all have a part to play - wear a mask, stay socially distant, avoid gatherings large and small, and wash your hands religiously. Our actions today determine our rate of positive cases tomorrow - it's that simple. We can manage this phase the same way we did before: by holding each other to account and staying New York Tough."

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 4.89 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 2.82 percent. Within the focus areas, 27,713 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 1,355 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 132,139 test results were reported, yielding 3,733 positives. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the day prior, the current 7-day rolling average, and last two weeks is

below:

FOCUS ZONE	11/1- 11/7 % Positive	11/8- 11/14 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (11/15) % Positive	Yesterday (11/16) % Positive
Brooklyn orange-zone focus area % positive	3.33%	3.92%	3.50%	3.50%	2.91%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.96%	3.48%	3.45%	3.88%	4.17%
Rockland yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.96%	2.23%	2.32%	2.93%	5.28%
Orange yellow-zone focus area % positive	1.96%	2.34%	2.62%	0.00%	2.01%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.13%	3.39%	2.77%	3.47%	2.46%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	6.45%	4.59%	4.17%	1.57%	5.74%
Westchester orange-zone focus area % positive	7.46%	9.34%	8.01%	3.95%	7.42%
Erie yellow-zone focus area % positive	5.35%	7.30%	7.33%	6.36%	8.05%
Monroe yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.06%	5.54%	5.13%	4.77%	3.68%
Onondaga yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.68%	6.58%	6.47%	5.84%	8.42%
Staten Island yellow-zone focus area % positive	3.00%	4.33%	4.33%	3.23%	4.81%
Tioga yellow-zone focus area % positive	10.03%	10.81%	9.37%	6.25%	7.14%
All focus area statewide % positive	3.83%	4.84%	4.67%	4.19%	4.89%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.95%	2.86%	2.88%	2.80%	3.18%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.81%	2.47%	2.52%	2.50%	2.82%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 2,124 (+156)
Patients Newly Admitted - 295
Hospital Counties - 50
Number ICU - 408 (+17)
Number ICU with Intubation - 176 (+18)
Total Discharges - 82,022 (+114)
Deaths - 29
Total Deaths - 26,189

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

REGION	SATURDAY	SUNDAY	MONDAY
Capital Region	2.0%	2.3%	2.8%
Central New York	4.6%	3.9%	4.5%
Finger Lakes	4.3%	4.3%	3.7%
Long Island	2.7%	3.5%	3.5%
Mid-Hudson	3.6%	3.0%	4.3%
Mohawk Valley	2.0%	1.7%	3.1%
New York City	2.2%	2.3%	2.9%
North Country	1.8%	1.8%	2.2%
Southern Tier	2.4%	1.4%	0.7%
Western New York	5.6%	5.2%	6.5%

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

BOROUGH	SATURDAY	SUNDAY	MONDAY
Bronx	2.6%	2.5%	3.7%
Brooklyn	2.1%	1.9%	2.3%
Manhattan	1.6%	1.6%	2.3%
Queens	2.5%	3.3%	3.1%
Staten Island	3.5%	3.1%	4.8%

Of the 568,778 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	4,653	81
Allegany	667	17
Broome	4,469	38
Cattaraugus	695	12
Cayuga	654	15
Chautauqua	1,265	17
Chemung	2,404	24
Chenango	512	6
Clinton	384	4
Columbia	895	9
Cortland	779	8
Delaware	281	1
Dutchess	6,308	84
Erie	18,410	392
Essex	234	3
Franklin	195	6
Fulton	403	2
Genesee	635	20
Greene	593	6
Hamilton	26	0
Herkimer	508	4
Jefferson	339	7
Lewis	253	6
Livingston	509	10
Madison	739	12
Monroe	10,891	211
Montgomery	331	6
Nassau	54,715	406
Niagara	2,798	45
NYC	285,275	1,934
Oneida	3,667	64
Onondaga	8,084	192
Ontario	986	17
Orange	15,283	101
Orleans	526	5
Oswego	1,006	19
Otsego	470	4
Putnam	2,243	57
Rensselaer	1,364	31
Rockland	20,044	140
Saratoga	1,741	47
Schenectady	1,920	30
Schoharie	155	10
Schuyler	237	6
Seneca	220	6
St. Lawrence	603	30
Steuben	1,448	14
Suffolk	54,055	402
Sullivan	1,993	12
Tioga	973	16
Tompkins	820	9
Ulster	2,835	35
Warren	515	8
Washington	407	3
Wayne	808	28
Westchester	44,975	399
Wyoming	363	9
Yates	217	8

Yesterday, 29 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 26,189. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Allegany	1
Bronx	1
Broome	1
Cattaraugus	1
Cayuga	1
Dutchess	1
Erie	11
Kings	2
Lewis	1
Nassau	1
Oneida	1
Onondaga	1
Richmond	1
Rockland	1
Steuben	1
Suffolk	2
Tioga	1