Governor Cuomo Announces 7-day Average COVID-19 Positivity Rate Drops To New Record Low

 

7-Day Average Drops to 0.54%; 61 Straight Days of Decline

Pop-Up Sites at MTA Stations Have Administered More Than 15,000 Vaccinations to Date; Penn Station and Grand Central Sites Extended Another Week

91,711 Vaccine Doses Administered Over Last 24 Hours

Statewide Positivity Rate is 0.54%

Hospitalizations Drop Below 900 to Lowest Level Since October 10; 868 Patient Hospitalizations Statewide

14 COVID-19 Deaths Statewide Yesterday

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

The Governor also announced that pop-up vaccination sites at MTA station stops have administered more than 15,000 vaccines to date. The sites at Penn Station and Grand Central will be extended another week.

"New Yorkers are gaining ground in the fight against COVID-19 and we're getting closer to the light at the end of the tunnel, but we need everyone to get vaccinated to successfully move this state into the future. We're offering incentives and opening new pop-up sites across the state to get New Yorkers into vaccination sites and shots into arms," Governor Cuomo said. "We're providing tickets for a $5 million lottery and the chance to win a free SUNY or CUNY scholarship among other amazing incentives to convince New Yorkers to get vaccinated and protect their fellow citizens. We can defeat COVID together and rebuild our state, but getting vaccinated is the key to our success and I urge everyone who hasn't gotten the shot to do so right away."

Today's data is summarized briefly below:

• Test Results Reported - 140,741 
• Total Positive - 761 
• Percent Positive - 0.54%
• 7-Day Average Percent Positive - 0.54%
• Patient Hospitalization - 868 (-48)
• Patients Newly Admitted - 112
• Patients in ICU - 217 (-15)
• Patients in ICU with Intubation - 121 (-13)
• Total Discharges - 182,855 (+125)
• Deaths - 14
• Total Deaths - 42,775
• Total vaccine doses administered - 19,407,805
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours - 91,711
• Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days - 516,039
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose - 66.1%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series - 58.1%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 68.4%
• Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 59.0%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose - 54.4%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series - 46.8%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) - 56.3%
• Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) - 47.5%