Governor Cuomo Announces Record Number of COVID-19 Tests Reported – ny.gov

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced 119,493 test results were reported to New York State yesterdaya new record high.In the top 20 'hot spot' zip codes,6,703 tests wereconducted, yielding 429 positives or a 6.4% positivity rate. Inthe remainder of the state,112,790 were conducted yielding 1,169 positives or a 1.03% positivity rate.

"We are tracking the hotspots here on the home front, and the hotspots are a significant problem. The hotspots are Orange, Rockland, New York City and a small area in Nassau. We've seen the Orange, Brooklyn and hotspots go up in some zip codes and we see some spreading into a part of Queens,"Governor Cuomo said."So that is our priority and our focus, and the Department of Health is going to have people on the ground in the hotspot zip codes today."

New York State continues to track clusters with a particular focus on ZIP codes in counties where therearehotspot, cluster situations. Within the top 20 hotspot ZIP codes in New York State, the average rate of positive tests is 6.4 percent. The rate of positive tests for the remainder of New York State, not counting these top 20 ZIP codes, is 1.03 percent. These 20 ZIP codes contained 27 percent of all positive cases in New York State yesterday, but represent only 6 percent of the state's population.

Areas in hotspot communities, predominantly in Brooklyn, Queens, Rockland, and Orange, will be subject of focused testing efforts including access to rapid testing machines.

Yesterday, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 1,697 establishments in New York City and Long Island and observed 7 establishments that were not in compliance with state requirements. A county breakdown of yesterday's observed violations is below:

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

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

REGION

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

Capital Region

0.5%

0.5%

0.9%

CentralNew York

0.4%

1.0%

0.7%

Finger Lakes

0.3%

0.7%

1.0%

Long Island

1.3%

1.0%

1.3%

Mid-Hudson

2.4%

2.8%

2.6%

Mohawk Valley

0.3%

0.8%

0.4%

New York City

1.2%

1.3%

1.4%

North Country

0.2%

0.1%

0.2%

Southern Tier

0.6%

1.0%

1.0%

WesternNew York

1.1%

1.7%

1.2%

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

BOROUGH

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

Bronx

1.1%

1.3%

1.0%

Brooklyn

1.8%

1.9%

1.9%

Manhattan

0.6%

0.7%

0.7%

Queens

1.2%

1.3%

1.7%

Staten Island

2.2%

1.6%

1.5%

Of the 461,629 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County

Total Positive

New Positive

Albany

3,153

20

Allegany

122

3

Broome

1,786

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