Governor Cuomo Announces New Record-high Number of COVID-19 Tests Reported to New York State – ny.gov

Governor Andrew M. Cuomotoday announced a new record-high number of test results 110,444 were reported to New York State yesterday. Yesterday, 0.89 of test results reported to New York State were positive. The number of new cases, percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available atforward.ny.gov.

"When we first started this journey a few months ago, we only had the capacity to do a few hundred tests per day - we have now reached a new record with over 110,000 tests reported to the State in one day,"Governor Cuomosaid."Despite testing more than most other states, our infection rate remains below one percent. But this pandemic is not over. We must protect our progress, and it's going to take all of us to keep up our hard work to do so. Everyone must continue to wash their hands, wear their masks, remain socially distant and above all, stay New York Tough."

Yesterday, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 1,434establishments in New York City and Long Island and observed 6establishments thatwere not in compliancewith state requirements. A county breakdown of yesterday's observed violations is below:

Today's dataissummarizedbrieflybelow:

Of the 110,444 testresults reported to New York State yesterday, 986, or 0.89 percent, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive testresults reported over the last three days is as follows:

REGION

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Capital Region

1.0%

0.5%

0.8%

CentralNew York

1.2%

1.6%

0.5%

Finger Lakes

0.6%

0.4%

0.5%

Long Island

1.1%

0.9%

1.0%

Mid-Hudson

1.4%

1.4%

1.2%

Mohawk Valley

0.6%

0.4%

0.4%

New York City

1.0%

0.9%

1.1%

North Country

0.2%

0.4%

0.3%

Southern Tier

0.4%

0.4%

0.4%

WesternNew York

1.5%

1.2%

0.9%

TheGovernor also confirmed 986 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to449,038 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 449,038 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

County

Total Positive

New Positive

Albany

3,006

27

Allegany

96

1

Broome

1,459

9

Cattaraugus

253

4

Cayuga

196

1

Chautauqua

536

1

Chemung

322

17

Chenango

248

0

Clinton

154

0

Columbia

580

0

Cortland

155

5

Delaware

130

1

Dutchess

5,053

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