NYS COVID-19 Update: Hot spot in Chemung County sees spike in Saturday’s test results

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

For more local COVID-19 data, click here.

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