Governor Cuomo to Meet with Orthodox Jewish Community Leaders

"I'm going to be meeting with religious leaders of the Orthodox community and local officials. If you look at those clusters and you look at those zip codes, you will see there's an overlap with large Orthodox Jewish communities. That is a fact. I will be meeting with them to talk about it. This is a public health concern for their community. It's also a public health concern for surrounding communities. I've said from day one, these public health rules apply to every religion, atheists - it just applies to every citizen of the State of New York, period," Governor Cuomo said. "We have seen hotspots before, but this is probably the largest cluster that we have addressed before, and the clusters are Brooklyn, Orange, Rockland. The activity in the cluster is very different than what's going on in the rest of the state. That's actually good news in some ways because you have effectively identified the genesis of the potential growth of the virus. Once you have the information, you aggressively target these clusters. These are embers that are starting to catch fire in dry grass. Send all the firefighting equipment and personnel to those embers and stamp out the embers right away. That's what this data does. Local governments are the first line of defense and they must respond. Competent government must do compliance and enforcement. A cluster today can be community spread tomorrow."

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The Governor noted that 20 hotspot ZIP codes on Monday reported a 5% positivity rate. Areas that had high positivity rates will be subject of focused testing efforts including access to rapid testing machines. These ZIP codes include: 

REGION	COUNTY	ZIP	% POSITIVE	TESTS	POSITIVES
Mid-Hudson	Orange	10950	18%	211	39
Mid-Hudson	Rockland	10952	10%	154	15
Mid-Hudson	Rockland	10977	8%	330	27
NYC	Kings	11223	7%	347	24
NYC	Queens	11374	5%	151	8
NYC	Queens	11691	4%	608	27
Southern Tier	Broome	13760	4%	163	7
NYC	Kings	11229	4%	299	12
NYC	Kings	11235	4%	366	14
NYC	Kings	11219	4%	455	17
NYC	Kings	11211	4%	329	12
NYC	Kings	11230	4%	482	17
NYC	Kings	11204	3%	272	9
NYC	Kings	11218	3%	417	13
Mid-Hudson	Westchester	10801	3%	137	4
NYC	Richmond	10301	3%	208	6
NYC	Kings	11210	3%	248	7
NYC	Richmond	10306	3%	359	10
NYC	Queens	11432	3%	223	6
NYC	Queens	11370	3%	115	3

 

 

Yesterday, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 1,075 establishments in New York City and Long Island and observed 3 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:

 

• Patient Hospitalization - 571 (+28)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 79
• Hospital Counties - 35
• Number ICU - 147 (+12)
• Number ICU with Intubation - 61 (+4)
• Total Discharges - 76,691 (+42)
• Deaths - 2
• Total Deaths - 25,470

 

88,231 test results were reported to New York State yesterday, with a total of 1,189 positive. The state's positivity in hot spot ZIP codes was 5%, and otherwise 1.1%. With the hotspot ZIPs included, 1.3 percent, were positive. Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:

 

REGION	SATURDAY	SUNDAY	MONDAY
Capital Region	0.5%	0.9%	0.9%
Central New York	1.1%	0.8%	1.7%
Finger Lakes	0.7%	0.6%	0.9%
Long Island	1.0%	1.2%	1.2%
Mid-Hudson	1.6%	3.1%	2.0%
Mohawk Valley	0.2%	1.2%	0.8%
New York City	1.2%	1.6%	1.3%
North Country	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
Southern Tier	1.4%	3.6%	1.9%
Western New York	0.7%	0.9%	1.3%

 

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

 

BOROUGH	SATURDAY	SUNDAY	MONDAY
Bronx	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%
Brooklyn	2.0%	2.6%	1.7%
Manhattan	0.4%	0.8%	0.7%
Queens	1.2%	1.6%	1.5%
Staten Island	1.0%	1.3%	1.6%

 

The Governor also confirmed 1,189 additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 457,649 confirmed cases in New York State. Of the 457,649 total individuals who tested positive for the virus, the geographic breakdown is as follows:

 

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	3,116	12
Allegany	108	2
Broome	1,642	36
Cattaraugus	271	11
Cayuga	219	1
Chautauqua	585	7
Chemung	492	22
Chenango	251	0
Clinton	162	1
Columbia	592	1
Cortland	181	10
Delaware	136	1
Dutchess	5,130	6
Erie	11,445	86
Essex	168	0
Franklin	66	0
Fulton	339	2
Genesee	327	6
Greene	323	0
Hamilton	15	0
Herkimer	337	2
Jefferson	170	0
Lewis	50	0
Livingston	207	0
Madison	497	4
Monroe	6,074	29
Montgomery	234	2
Nassau	46,791	80
Niagara	1,783	3
NYC	243,595	523
Oneida	2,432	12
Onondaga	4,409	30
Ontario	475	1
Orange	12,122	60
Orleans	335	0
Oswego	499	6
Otsego	340	0
Putnam	1,612	8
Rensselaer	916	3
Rockland	15,342	65
Saratoga	1,060	8
Schenectady	1,405	2
Schoharie	85	0
Schuyler	43	2
Seneca	107	1
St. Lawrence	325	1
Steuben	450	30
Suffolk	46,464	36
Sullivan	1,600	6
Tioga	242	5
Tompkins	417	3
Ulster	2,272	8
Warren	386	3
Washington	301	2
Wayne	321	1
Westchester	38,182	49
Wyoming	137	0
Yates	64	0

 

Yesterday, there were 2 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 25,470. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:

 

Deaths by County of Residence
County	New Deaths
Delaware	1
Steuben	1