Long Island no longer has the highest infection rate in the state in New York, although it saw a slight increase in its positive rate over the weekend.
The seven-day average continuous infection rate of those tested on Long Island was 4.31 percent on Friday, February 19, to 4.27 percent the next day and returned to 4.35 percent on Sunday, February 21st. During the same period, the state rate fell from 3.53% to 3.52% after a sudden increase after the holiday.
As of Monday, February 22, there were 986 patients with COVID-19 – against 1,111 – hospitalized on Long Island, representing 0.03 percent of the region’s population. The state also reported that 657 of Long Island’s 865 ICU beds were occupied by COVID-19 patients, leaving 22 percent available in the event of another outbreak of the virus.
If Long Island – or any of the other nine regions in the state – is at risk of reaching its hospital capacity rate of 90% in three weeks, Cuomo has promised to shut down the entire region.
The New York State Department of Health reported 516 new cases of COVID-19 in Nassau, bringing the total to 144,131, while the 563 new infections in Suffolk raised the total to 158,592.
Four new COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Suffolk, as the total has risen to 3,035, according to the state, and there has been one in Nassau, as the death toll has risen to 2,875 since the pandemic began.
“Thanks to the hard work and dedication of New Yorkers, we are beating COVID more and more every day and this has allowed us to start reopening different facets of the economy as part of our post-COVID reconstruction,” said the New York governor. . Andrew Cuomo said.
“Not only are our rates of hospitalization and infection decreasing, but we continue to build New York’s already extensive vaccination network to ensure that underserved communities do not have access to this life-saving medicine. Although we are not yet out of danger, we have the impulse on our side.
“As long as we remain united and continue to do what we know works, we will finally defeat this invisible enemy and return to normal.”
The latest analysis of the communities with the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nassau, according to the most recent data provided by the county Department of Health on February 22:
- Levittown: 3,719;
- Freeport: 3,002;
- Hicksville: 3,001;
- Hempstead: 2,998;
- East Meadow: 2,780;
- Valley Stream: 2,676;
- Near the ocean: 2,272;
- Elmont: 2,269;
- Long Beach: 2,258;
- Franklin Square: 2,224;
- Glen Cove: 2,075;
- Uniondale: 1,946;
- Massapequa: 1,683;
- Rockville Center: 1,642;
- Baldwin: 1,490;
- Woodmere: 1,474;
- West Hempstead: 1,423
- Plainview: 1,417;
- North Bellmore: 1,405;
- Massapequa do Norte: 1,363;
- Wantagh: 1,359;
- Mineola: 1,319;
- Lynbrook: 1,319;
- Massapequa Park: 1,296;
- Merrick: 1,249;
- Massapequa do Leste: 1,293;
- Seaford: 1,269.
Analysis of reported cases in Suffolk County, according to the Department of Health:
- Brookhaven: 44,213;
- Islip: 39,319;
- Babylon: 22,042;
- Huntington: 17,771;
- Smithtown: 11,074;
- Southampton: 4,717;
- Riverhead: 2,955;
- East Hampton: 1,404;
- Southold: 1,401;
- Shelter Island: 45.
There were 142,019 COVID-19 tests administered in New York on February 21, according to Cuomo, resulting in 5,804 new cases for a 4.33% positive infection rate.
There have been 89 new COVID-19-related deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
Across the state, a total of 1,578,785 positive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in more than 36 million tests that were administered. There have been a total of 37,851 virus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic
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