About a quarter of New Yorkers have already received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 13% of all residents have been fully vaccinated, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press release on Saturday.
The state’s positivity rate for the state’s COVID-19 test dropped to 2.95%, he announced. The seven-day moving average was slightly higher by 3.26%.
Even with more New Yorkers getting the vaccine, the city’s reported positivity rate remained well above the state’s overall rates, with a 7-day average of 7.82%, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Saturday.
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Here’s a look at Saturday #COVID-19 indicators.
• 231 new hospitalizations
• 1,921 new cases
• Positivity rate of 7.82% (average of 7 days)We cannot give up now. Mask today. Keep practicing social detachment. If you feel sick, stay home. Take the test: https://t.co/hnU8YAS15r
– Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) March 20, 2021
Hospitalizations in the state also dropped to 4,513 patients on Friday, the lowest rate since December 5, said Cuomo. Of these, 909 patients were in intensive care units. Of the ICU patients, 575 people were intubated.
62 people died of COVID-19 in the state, including five people in the Bronx, 13 people in Brooklyn, six people in Manhattan, 14 people in Queens and 1 person on Staten Island.
The state has also administered at least one dose of vaccine to more than 5 million people to date, Cuomo said on Saturday, with 188,828 doses distributed on Friday alone, and more than one million doses distributed this week.
“New Yorkers fought this pandemic by being vigilant, and while the vaccine is here, we need everyone to remain smart until we can vaccinate everyone they want,” said Cuomo. “We are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to get vaccines to arms quickly, safely and equitably – and we are not going to rest until this is done. In the meantime, everyone should continue to wash their hands, keeping socially distant and masked. go through this and defeat the beast COVID together, but there is more work to be done before we reach the light at the end of the tunnel. “