NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- New York state has kept its COVID-19 positivity rate below 1 percent for 18 days in a row, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.
Of the 67,255 COVID-19 test results that came back on Monday, 629, or 0.94 percent, were positive, Cuomo said in a release. As of Monday, 488 people in the state were hospitalized with COVID-19, 133 of whom were in intensive care units and 52 of whom were on ventilators, he said.
Cuomo reported two new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, bringing the statewide death toll to 25,297. One of the two people who passed away died in Broome County, and the other died in Montgomery County.
New York state on Tuesday also added Guam to its travel advisory, which requires travelers returning from COVID-19 hotspots to self-quarantine for 14 days. The state removed Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Maryland and Montana from the advisory.
"New Yorkers made enormous sacrifices to get our numbers as low as they are today, and we don't want to give up an inch of that hard-earned progress," Cuomo said in a statement.
"That's why these travel advisory precautions are so important — we don't want people who travel to states with high community spread to bring the virus back here," he added. A breakdown of positivity rates by region is below:
