GOVERNOR CUOMO UPDATES NEW YORKERS ON STATE’S PROGRESS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 4.13 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 2.62 Percent
Statewide Positivity Rate is 2.96 Percent
47 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.
“Remember the experts said, ‘Beware the fall.’ It gets cold, people start to stay indoors, college students start to come home and there’s less outdoor activity. That’s the spike we’re seeing go up now, and we are now going into the holiday season and 37 days of increased social interaction,” Governor Cuomo said. “This is not a normal Thanksgiving. It was not a normal summer. It was not a normal Labor Day. It was not a normal school year. Even President Trump’s CDC and President-Elect Biden’s advisors agree we should all be celebrating only with our immediate household. I know it’s hard, but we cannot go backwards – it would be disrespectful to the essential workers, nurses and doctors, many of whom gave their lives so we could stay home and stay safe. This year, I give thanks to all those essential workers who showed up for work every day, even in the worst of this crisis. Celebrate Thanksgiving with your extended family: The family of New York, representative of all those people who did the right thing this entire year for one and other and acted as a family. We will get through this surge by continuing to do the right thing: Wearing our masks, washing our hands, avoiding gatherings large and small, 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 4.13 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 2.62 percent. Within the focus areas, 37,658 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 1,554 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 127,103 test results were reported, yielding 3,327 positives. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the day prior, the current 7-day rolling average, and last two weeks is below:
| STATEWIDE | 11/8- 11/14 % Positive | 11/15- 11/21 % Positive | Current 7-day rolling average | Day Prior (11/22) % Positive | Yesterday (11/23) % Positive |
| All focus area statewide % positive | 4.81% | 4.51% | 4.40% | 4.42% | 4.13% |
| Statewide % positive with all focus areas included | 2.86% | 2.89% | 2.90% | 3.08% | 2.96% |
| Statewide % positive without all focus areas included | 2.47% | 2.44% | 2.46% | 2.73% | 2.62% |
Micro-cluster zone 7-day average positivity rates for today, yesterday, the day before, last week, and the week prior is below:
| FOCUS ZONE | 11/8- 11/14 % Positive | 11/15- 11/21 % Positive | Day Prior 7-day Rolling Average | Yesterday 7-day Rolling Average | Current 7-day Rolling average |
| Erie orange-zone focus area % positive | 7.22% | 7.30% | 7.31% | 7.20% | 7.02% |
| Erie Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 5.34% | 7.36% | 7.36% | 7.53% | 7.52% |
| Niagara Yellow -zone focus area % positive | 5.10% | 4.44% | 4.44% | 4.53% | 4.75% |
| Monroe Orange-zone focus area % positive | 4.41% | 4.17% | 4.17% | 4.26% | 4.49% |
| Monroe Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 5.95% | 3.58% | 3.58% | 3.49% | 3.47% |
| Onondaga Orange-zone focus area % positive | 6.26% | 5.34% | 5.34% | 5.45% | 4.96% |
| Onondaga Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 6.03% | 4.50% | 4.50% | 4.28% | 4.25% |
| Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills/Astoria yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.40% | 3.40% | 3.40% | 3.31% | 3.19% |
| Bronx East Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.81% | 3.52% | 3.52% | 3.73% | 3.81% |
| Bronx West Yellow -zone focus area % positive | 3.80% | 4.70% | 4.70% | 4.73% | 4.58% |
| Brooklyn Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.92% | 3.70% | 3.70% | 3.85% | 4.12% |
| Rockland Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.55% | 3.39% | 3.39% | 3.29% | 3.15% |
| Chemung Orange-zone focus area % positive | 4.59% | 4.71% | 4.71% | 5.20% | 5.03% |
| Staten Island Orange-zone focus area % positive | 5.24% | 4.96% | 4.96% | 5.17% | 4.98% |
| Staten Island Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.75% | 3.61% | 3.61% | 3.68% | 3.54% |
| Tioga Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 10.81% | 5.60% | 5.60% | 5.47% | 3.00% |
| Orange Middletown – Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.81% | 5.41% | 5.41% | 3.84% | 3.65% |
| Orange Newburgh – Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 8.07% | 7.89% | 7.89% | 8.68% | 8.82% |
| Manhattan-Washington Heights-Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.23% | 3.39% | 3.39% | 3.42% | 3.11% |
| Nassau-Great Neck-Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 3.69% | 3.69% | 3.69% | 3.47% | 3.18% |
| Nassau Massapequa Park -Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 4.64% | 4.15% | 4.15% | 4.10% | 3.55% |
| Suffolk-Hampton Bays-Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 9.26% | 5.69% | 5.69% | 5.37% | 5.11% |
| Suffolk-Riverhead-Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 4.80% | 4.85% | 4.85% | 4.47% | 4.63% |
| Westchester Peekskill – Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 10.36% | 7.15% | 7.15% | 7.29% | 6.47% |
| Westchester Ossining – Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 9.88% | 10.22% | 10.22% | 10.11% | 10.51% |
| Westchester Tarrytown – Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 8.47% | 8.27% | 8.27% | 8.80% | 7.47% |
| Westchester Yonkers – Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 4.48% | 4.11% | 4.11% | 4.38% | 4.35% |
| Westchester New Rochelle – Yellow-zone focus area % positive | 6.46% | 5.68% | 5.68% | 5.20% | 4.99% |
| Westchester Port Chester Orange-zone focus area % positive | 9.34% | 7.59% | 7.59% | 7.94% | 7.71% |
Today’s data is summarized briefly below:
- Patient Hospitalization – 2,856 (+132)
- Patients Newly Admitted – 373
- Hospital Counties – 52
- Number ICU – 559 (+14)
- Number ICU with Intubation – 263 (+14)
- Total Discharges – 83,701 (+200)
- Deaths – 47
- Total Deaths – 26,441
Each region’s percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:
| REGION | SATURDAY | SUNDAY | MONDAY | CURRENT 7-DAY AVERAGE |
| Capital Region | 2.0% | 2.0% | 3.2% | 2.32% |
| Central New York | 2.6% | 3.6% | 3.4% | 3.33% |
| Finger Lakes | 2.5% | 3.6% | 3.4% | 3.28% |
| Long Island | 3.5% | 3.5% | 3.4% | 3.23% |
| Mid-Hudson | 3.3% | 4.2% | 4.0% | 3.87% |
| Mohawk Valley | 2.1% | 2.5% | 5.3% | 2.76% |
| New York City | 2.3% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.52% |
| North Country | 1.3% | 1.7% | 3.7% | 1.83% |
| Southern Tier | 1.5% | 1.8% | 0.8% | 1.24% |
| Western New York | 6.0% | 5.5% | 5.8% | 5.04% |
Each New York City borough’s percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:
| BOROUGH | SATURDAY | SUNDAY | MONDAY | CURRENT 7-DAY AVERAGE |
| Bronx | 3.3% | 3.4% | 3.6% | 3.36% |
| Brooklyn | 2.0% | 2.7% | 2.4% | 2.35% |
| Manhattan | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.7% | 1.72% |
| Queens | 2.9% | 2.9% | 2.6% | 2.74% |
| Staten Island | 4.4% | 4.2% | 3.7% | 3.97% |
Of the 607,001 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:
| County | Total Positive | New Positive |
| Albany | 5,233 | 85 |
| Allegany | 869 | 13 |
| Broome | 4,983 | 56 |
| Cattaraugus | 919 | 18 |
| Cayuga | 762 | 27 |
| Chautauqua | 1,414 | 11 |
| Chemung | 2,724 | 22 |
| Chenango | 583 | 5 |
| Clinton | 430 | 2 |
| Columbia | 970 | 5 |
| Cortland | 913 | 6 |
| Delaware | 319 | 5 |
| Dutchess | 6,811 | 83 |
| Erie | 21,873 | 301 |
| Essex | 252 | 2 |
| Franklin | 243 | 4 |
| Fulton | 461 | 7 |
| Genesee | 819 | 19 |
| Greene | 646 | 13 |
| Hamilton | 40 | 1 |
| Herkimer | 603 | 21 |
| Jefferson | 457 | 22 |
| Lewis | 315 | 9 |
| Livingston | 624 | 7 |
| Madison | 836 | 15 |
| Monroe | 13,054 | 283 |
| Montgomery | 413 | 17 |
| Nassau | 57,489 | 362 |
| Niagara | 3,261 | 48 |
| NYC | 298,275 | 1,728 |
| Oneida | 4,292 | 82 |
| Onondaga | 9,470 | 108 |
| Ontario | 1,135 | 6 |
| Orange | 16,093 | 106 |
| Orleans | 581 | 5 |
| Oswego | 1,302 | 29 |
| Otsego | 552 | 23 |
| Putnam | 2,529 | 57 |
| Rensselaer | 1,554 | 26 |
| Rockland | 20,824 | 116 |
| Saratoga | 2,006 | 37 |
| Schenectady | 2,189 | 53 |
| Schoharie | 176 | 0 |
| Schuyler | 274 | 3 |
| Seneca | 260 | 7 |
| St. Lawrence | 705 | 27 |
| Steuben | 1,610 | 11 |
| Suffolk | 57,366 | 501 |
| Sullivan | 2,108 | 15 |
| Tioga | 1,055 | 12 |
| Tompkins | 953 | 17 |
| Ulster | 3,109 | 36 |
| Warren | 547 | 4 |
| Washington | 433 | 3 |
| Wayne | 983 | 16 |
| Westchester | 47,632 | 370 |
| Wyoming | 430 | 11 |
| Yates | 242 | 3 |
Yesterday, 47 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 26,441. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:
| Deaths by County of Residence | |
| County | New Deaths |
| Allegany | 3 |
| Bronx | 1 |
| Broome | 2 |
| Cattaraugus | 1 |
| Chemung | 1 |
| Dutchess | 2 |
| Erie | 8 |
| Franklin | 1 |
| Herkimer | 1 |
| Jefferson | 1 |
| Kings | 3 |
| Manhattan | 1 |
| Monroe | 1 |
| Nassau | 3 |
| Niagara | 1 |
| Orange | 3 |
| Queens | 2 |
| Richmond | 1 |
| Rockland | 2 |
| St. Lawrence | 3 |
| Steuben | 1 |
| Suffolk | 1 |
| Ulster | 2 |
| Westchester | 2 |
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