NY’s Covid hospitalizations drop below 1,000 for first time since March 18
Press Release, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Office
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Covid-19 hospitalizations have dropped below 1,000 for the first time since March 18.
Yesterday, there were 996 hospitalized Covid-19 patients in New York State. This is down from a peak of approximately 18,825 hospitalizations on April 12.
“After three months of New Yorkers working hard, doing the right thing and taking this seriously, the state has its lowest Covid-19 hospitalization rate since this started,” Governor Cuomo said. “Facts are facts, even in this crazy political environment, and what we’re saying in New York is we did the right thing. New Yorkers have been locked up and closed their businesses. We have the virus under control finally. We had to flatten the curve. We don’t want to go back.”
Today’s data is summarized briefly below:
- Patient Hospitalization, 996 (-75)
- Patients Newly Admitted, 68 (-29)
- Number ICU, 270 (-20)
- Number ICU that are intubated, 167 (-23)
- Total Discharges, 70,010 (+110)
- Deaths, 17
- Total Deaths, 24,800
The governor also confirmed 749 additional coronavirus cases in New York State, bringing the statewide total to 390,415.
Of the 67,642 tests conducted in New York State yesterday, 749, or 1.1 percent, were positive.
Central New York, the Finger Lakes, the Mohawk Valley, the North Country and the Southern Tier will enter Phase IV of reopening tomorrow, June 26.
