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 4.05 Percent; New York State Positivity Outside All Focus Zone Areas is 2.45 Percent   

Statewide Positivity Rate is 2.74 Percent

30 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.

“What we’re seeing now as COVID rages across the country and world is what scientists told us time and time again would happen as the colder months arrived,” Governor Cuomo said. “But we learned from what we went through in New York and we’ve been a step ahead ever since. These next few weeks will be challenging as the holidays arrive. We all want to be with our loved ones, especially after this hard year, but we must remain vigilant. We all have COVID fatigue, but we simply don’t have the luxury of letting our guard down – COVID isn’t tired. If we stay New York Tough and keep up the good work we’ve been doing, wearing our masks, staying socially distant and adhering to gathering limits, we can manage this global surge of COVID, but these next few weeks are key in maintaining our progress.”

The Governor noted that the positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state’s Micro-Cluster strategy is 4.05 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 2.45 percent. Within the focus areas, 23,488 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 953 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 109,714 test results were reported, yielding 2,696 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 (11/13) % Positive Yesterday (11/14) % Positive
Brooklyn orange-zone focus area % positive 4.78% 3.33% 3.92% 3.00% 3.18%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive 2.65% 2.96% 3.48% 3.39% 3.23%
Rockland yellow-zone focus area % positive 4.08% 2.96% 2.23% 1.45% 3.21%
Orange yellow-zone focus area % positive 2.37% 1.96% 2.34% 4.05% 2.34%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive 6.00% 4.13% 3.39% 2.62% 3.07%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive 5.52% 6.45% 4.59% 5.80% 5.14%
Westchester orange-zone focus area % positive 6.20% 7.46% 9.34% 12.06% 4.05%
Erie yellow-zone focus area % positive 2.86% 5.35% 7.30% 8.17% 6.62%
Monroe yellow-zone focus area % positive 2.22% 4.06% 5.54% 5.09% 4.68%
Onondaga yellow-zone focus area % positive 2.83% 4.68% 6.58% 5.90% 5.40%
Staten Island yellow-zone focus area % positive 2.58% 3.00% 4.33% 4.61% 3.49%
Tioga yellow-zone focus area % positive 5.83% 10.03% 10.81% 5.88% 7.32%
All focus area statewide % positive 3.04% 3.83% 4.84% 4.83% 4.05%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included 1.54% 1.95% 2.86% 2.92% 2.74%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included 1.34% 1.81% 2.47% 2.57% 2.45%

 

Today’s data is summarized briefly below:

  • Patient Hospitalization – 1,845 (+57)
  • Patients Newly Admitted – 266
  • Hospital Counties – 51
  • Number ICU – 378 (+11)
  • Number ICU with Intubation – 158 (+12)
  • Total Discharges – 81,788 (+203)
  • Deaths – 30
  • Total Deaths – 26,133

 

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

 

REGION THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Capital Region 2.0% 2.0% 2.0%
Central New York 2.4% 3.9% 4.6%
Finger Lakes 5.1% 3.8% 4.3%
Long Island 3.3% 3.3% 2.7%
Mid-Hudson 3.5% 3.9% 3.6%
Mohawk Valley 1.8% 4.6% 2.0%
New York City 2.5% 2.5% 2.2%
North Country 1.4% 2.5% 1.8%
Southern Tier 0.9% 1.1% 2.4%
Western New York 3.9% 4.6% 5.6%

 

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

 

BOROUGH THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Bronx 3.0% 2.8% 2.6%
Brooklyn 2.2% 2.1% 2.1%
Manhattan 1.7% 1.8% 1.6%
Queens 2.8% 2.9% 2.5%
Staten Island 4.6% 4.4% 3.5%

 

Of the 560,200 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

 

County Total Positive New Positive
Albany 4,529 15
Allegany 644 16
Broome 4,394 32
Cattaraugus 678 3
Cayuga 632 5
Chautauqua 1,239 5
Chemung 2,362 31
Chenango 501 6
Clinton 377 5
Columbia 881 4
Cortland 750 27
Delaware 277 1
Dutchess 6,185 41
Erie 17,746 277
Essex 230 1
Franklin 188 4
Fulton 393 4
Genesee 603 6
Greene 585 2
Hamilton 26 1
Herkimer 491 6
Jefferson 324 8
Lewis 237 3
Livingston 488 7
Madison 718 9
Monroe 10,453 124
Montgomery 322 3
Nassau 54,014 326
Niagara 2,708 30
NYC 282,056 1,457
Oneida 3,569 39
Onondaga 7,749 99
Ontario 955 16
Orange 15,124 93
Orleans 515 7
Oswego 968 14
Otsego 463 3
Putnam 2,153 19
Rensselaer 1,321 17
Rockland 19,843 120
Saratoga 1,680 14
Schenectady 1,871 11
Schoharie 143 2
Schuyler 228 10
Seneca 209 4
St. Lawrence 568 14
Steuben 1,416 22
Suffolk 53,308 366
Sullivan 1,979 10
Tioga 951 11
Tompkins 806 7
Ulster 2,788 20
Warren 507 0
Washington 403 3
Wayne 757 8
Westchester 44,346 253
Wyoming 343 3
Yates 206 5

 

Yesterday, 30 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 26,133. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

 

Deaths by County of Residence
County New Deaths
Bronx 2
Broome 1
Chemung 1
Columbia 1
Dutchess 1
Erie 5
Kings 2
Monroe 2
Nassau 2
Oneida 3
Onondaga 2
Queens 1
St. Lawrence 1
Suffolk 3
Tioga 1
Westchester 2

 

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