ALBANY, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The COVID-19 positive rate across New York State remained steady just above one percent, but a hot spot in Chemung County saw a noticeable spike in Saturday’s test results.
According to the New York State health Department, 1.35% of the COVID-19 test results that came back across the state on Saturday were positive. Without the data from the hot spots, New York State’s positive rate was 1.06%. This number has remained consistent over the last few weeks.
Many of the micro-clusters throughout New York State remained steady with their COVID-19 positive rates as well, except Chemung County. The orange zone in Chemung County had a 12.04% positive rate from Saturday’s tests. Over the past week, the Chemung County hot spot was averaging a 8.36% positivity rate, which makes Saturday’s data even more concerning.
In Central New York, the COVID-19 positive rate from Saturday’s test results was 1.2%. Saturday also marked the sixth consecutive day in which more than 60 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed within the region, the longest such stretch since the pandemic began.
COVID-19 positive rates for all ten New York regions over the last three days:
| REGION | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY |
| Capital Region | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.8% |
| Central New York | 1.1% | 0.7% | 1.2% |
| Finger Lakes | 1.7% | 1.7% | 1.7% |
| Long Island | 1.1% | 1.6% | 1.3% |
| Mid-Hudson | 1.5% | 1.9% | 1.9% |
| Mohawk Valley | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.6% |
| New York City | 1.0% | 1.2% | 1.4% |
| North Country | 0.8% | 1.8% | 1.5% |
| Southern Tier | 1.3% | 1.1% | 1.3% |
| Western New York | 1.4% | 1.1% | 1.3% |
Statewide, the number of New Yorkers hospitalized with COVID-19 declined on Saturday, but there are still more than 1,000 people in New York State battling the virus in a hospital.
Tragically, twelve more New Yorkers lost their lives to coronavirus on Saturday.
Complete data provided by the New York State Health Department Sunday:
- Patient Hospitalization – 1,015 (-30)
- Patients Newly Admitted – 116
- Number ICU – 227 (-4)
- Number ICU with Intubation – 118 (+5)
- Total Discharges – 79,092 (+132)
- Deaths – 12
- Total Deaths – 25,730
Since the pandemic began, there have been 495,464 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York State.
Breakdown of cases by county:
| County | Total Positive | New Positive |
| Albany | 3,577 | 28 |
| Allegany | 271 | 2 |
| Broome | 3,368 | 38 |
| Cattaraugus | 461 | 6 |
| Cayuga | 364 | 12 |
| Chautauqua | 884 | 7 |
| Chemung | 1,640 | 96 |
| Chenango | 381 | 16 |
| Clinton | 240 | 4 |
| Columbia | 680 | 11 |
| Cortland | 510 | 14 |
| Delaware | 169 | 1 |
| Dutchess | 5,438 | 17 |
| Erie | 12,819 | 37 |
| Essex | 197 | 1 |
| Franklin | 79 | 0 |
| Fulton | 361 | 0 |
| Genesee | 380 | 1 |
| Greene | 490 | 1 |
| Hamilton | 16 | 0 |
| Herkimer | 387 | 3 |
| Jefferson | 202 | 3 |
| Lewis | 108 | 16 |
| Livingston | 280 | 8 |
| Madison | 559 | 2 |
| Monroe | 7,111 | 41 |
| Montgomery | 261 | 0 |
| Nassau | 49,312 | 109 |
| Niagara | 2,041 | 9 |
| NYC | 258,555 | 653 |
| Oneida | 2,681 | 11 |
| Onondaga | 5,309 | 32 |
| Ontario | 644 | 9 |
| Orange | 13,457 | 44 |
| Orleans | 393 | 8 |
| Oswego | 616 | 7 |
| Otsego | 390 | 6 |
| Putnam | 1,794 | 6 |
| Rensselaer | 1,080 | 7 |
| Rockland | 17,685 | 50 |
| Saratoga | 1,308 | 13 |
| Schenectady | 1,546 | 7 |
| Schoharie | 109 | 2 |
| Schuyler | 116 | 1 |
| Seneca | 140 | 0 |
| St. Lawrence | 386 | 4 |
| Steuben | 962 | 11 |
| Suffolk | 48,663 | 101 |
| Sullivan | 1,743 | 18 |
| Tioga | 572 | 23 |
| Tompkins | 603 | 10 |
| Ulster | 2,471 | 12 |
| Warren | 450 | 2 |
| Washington | 332 | 2 |
| Wayne | 448 | 16 |
| Westchester | 40,131 | 90 |
| Wyoming | 182 | 3 |
| Yates | 112 | 1 |
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