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

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's micro-cluster strategy is 3.72 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 2.23 percent. Within the focus areas, 11,672 test results were reported yesterday, yielding 435 positives. In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 133,970 test results were reported, yielding 2,993 positives. Full results for tests reported yesterday, the day prior, the current 7-day rolling average, and last two weeks is

below:

FOCUS ZONE	10/18- 10/24 % Positive	10/25- 10/31 % Positive	Current 7-day rolling average	Day Prior (11/6) % Positive	Yesterday (11/7) % Positive
Brooklyn red-zone focus area % positive	4.15%	4.78%	3.33%	4.64%	5.39%
Queens Kew Garden Hills/Forest Hills yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.40%	2.65%	2.96%	3.17%	3.73%
Rockland orange-zone focus area % positive	3.65%	4.08%	2.96%	2.49%	2.43%
Orange yellow-zone focus area % positive	2.64%	2.37%	1.96%	1.04%	1.47%
Broome yellow-zone focus area % positive	6.39%	6.00%	4.13%	3.52%	3.05%
Steuben yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.42%	4.99%	3.21%	3.63%	2.44%
Chemung orange-zone focus area % positive	8.36%	5.52%	6.45%	6.29%	2.95%
Westchester yellow-zone focus area % positive	4.25%	6.23%	7.53%	8.00%	8.33%
All focus area statewide % positive	3.58%	3.57%	3.43%	4.22%	3.72%
Statewide % positive with all focus areas included	1.31%	1.54%	1.95%	2.19%	2.35%
Statewide % positive without all focus areas included	1.06%	1.34%	1.81%	2.01%	2.23%

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

Patient Hospitalization - 1,396 (+15)
Patients Newly Admitted - 185
Hospital Counties - 46
Number ICU - 295 (-13)
Number ICU with Intubation - 131 (-7)
Total Discharges - 80,646 (+152)
Deaths - 18
Total Deaths - 25,947

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

REGION	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY
Capital Region	1.7%	1.7%	1.1%
Central New York	2.5%	2.6%	2.6%
Finger Lakes	3.2%	3.2%	3.5%
Long Island	1.9%	2.5%	2.6%
Mid-Hudson	2.5%	2.5%	2.8%
Mohawk Valley	1.2%	1.5%	1.1%
New York City	1.9%	1.8%	2.2%
North Country	1.4%	1.6%	1.7%
Southern Tier	1.0%	1.2%	1.3%
Western New York	3.3%	4.3%	4.8%

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	2.2%	2.0%	3.2%
Brooklyn	2.0%	1.8%	1.9%
Manhattan	1.0%	1.3%	1.7%
Queens	2.0%	2.1%	2.3%
Staten Island	3.5%	3.0%	2.9%

Of the 529,036 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	4,049	25
Allegany	469	14
Broome	4,003	21
Cattaraugus	605	6
Cayuga	533	15
Chautauqua	1,114	11
Chemung	2,126	30
Chenango	460	5
Clinton	301	4
Columbia	801	12
Cortland	647	14
Delaware	238	11
Dutchess	5,790	51
Erie	14,988	271
Essex	216	0
Franklin	136	9
Fulton	373	1
Genesee	478	13
Greene	555	3
Hamilton	19	0
Herkimer	447	4
Jefferson	268	6
Lewis	180	7
Livingston	406	4
Madison	652	9
Monroe	8,824	208
Montgomery	296	1
Nassau	51,682	264
Niagara	2,354	41
NYC	271,219	1,391
Oneida	3,082	43
Onondaga	6,491	95
Ontario	822	28
Orange	14,369	68
Orleans	442	8
Oswego	758	24
Otsego	444	2
Putnam	1,948	11
Rensselaer	1,198	14
Rockland	18,910	56
Saratoga	1,541	21
Schenectady	1,716	15
Schoharie	122	1
Schuyler	183	5
Seneca	176	5
St. Lawrence	480	9
Steuben	1,225	25
Suffolk	50,728	259
Sullivan	1,894	3
Tioga	836	13
Tompkins	702	12
Ulster	2,626	19
Warren	483	3
Washington	380	0
Wayne	663	8
Westchester	42,179	225
Wyoming	246	3
Yates	163	2

Yesterday, 18 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,947. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence: