NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- New York state reported three new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday as its infection rate stayed below 1 percent for the 33rd straight day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
The three people who died passed away in Dutchess County, Erie County and Brooklyn, bringing the state's death toll to 25,370, Cuomo said in a release Wednesday. Of the 63,230 COVID-19 test results that came back in New York state on Tuesday, 576, or 0.91 percent, were positive, he said.
As of Tuesday, 463 people in the state were hospitalized with COVID-19, 121 of whom were being treated in intensive care units and 59 of whom were on ventilators.
Only five restaurants and bars out of 969 establishments the state inspected Tuesday — four in Nassau County and one in the Bronx — were issued violations for failing to comply with COVID-19 orders, Cuomo noted.
"New York state's infection rate has been under 1 percent for 33 straight days, which is great news and a credit to New Yorkers and what they're doing," he said in a statement.
"And that is with more testing than any other state," he added. "When we say this is how many cases we have, that's accurate because we're testing more than anyone else."
A breakdown of infection rates by region is below:
