GOVERNOR CUOMO UPDATES NEW YORKERS ON STATE’S PROGRESS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

By CUOMO PRESS OFFICE | November 15, 2020


Positive Testing Rate in All Focus Zone Areas is 4.83 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 2.57 Percent  

Statewide Positivity Rate is 2.92 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.

“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

 

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