NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Nearly half of New York state's newly-hospitalized COVID-19 patients are from the five counties dealing with hotspots, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.
As of Monday, 923 people in the state were hospitalized with COVID-19, 118 of whom were newly-admitted, Cuomo said in a release.
Forty-nine of the 118 people, or 42 percent, were from Brooklyn, Queens, Rockland County, Orange County and Broome County, where the state is monitoring high-risk COVID-19 hotspots, he noted. Of the 923 people hospitalized, 181 were in intensive care and 90 were on ventilators.
"The recent increase in daily hospital admissions has been primarily from the cluster areas the state is closely monitoring, which have accounted for approximately 70 percent of the increase in daily hospital admissions between early September and today," the release said.
The state reported its highest number of hospitalizations on April 12, when 18,825 people in the state were hospitalized with COVID-19.
Of the 99,070 COVID-19 test results that came back on Monday, 1,393, or 1.4 percent, were positive, Cuomo said.
The state's hotspot areas reported a 4.13 percent infection rate, he noted. Excluding the hotspots, the state reported a 1.2 percent infection rate.
New York state also reported 11 new COVID-19 deaths, the governor said: three in the Bronx; one in Cattaraugus County; one in Dutchess County; three in Brooklyn; one in Nassau County; one in Queens; and one in Tioga County.
"Our numbers overall continue to remain steady, despite the micro-clusters that have popped up in certain pockets of the state," he said in a statement. "Our strategy is to continue to identify these clusters if and when they pop up, get even more refined in our targeting, and attack them as needed."
