NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- New York state's COVID-19 infection rate ticked up to 4.86 percent on Sunday, ending a 23-day decline, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
Of the 175,038 COVID-19 test results that came back in the state on Sunday, 8,508, or 4.86 percent, were positive, up from 4.44 percent on Saturday, Cuomo said in a press release.
Up until Saturday, New York's positivity rate had been on the decline for 23 straight days, the governor noted in a release on Sunday.
As of Sunday night, 8,003 New Yorkers were hospitalized with COVID-19, up by 27 from Saturday, Cuomo said. One thousand five hundred of the 8,003 patients were in intensive care units, and 987 were on ventilators, he said.
An additional 141 New Yorkers, meanwhile, died of complications related to the virus. Twelve of the New Yorkers lived in the Bronx; 18 lived in Brooklyn; five lived in Manhattan; 10 lived in Nassau County; four lived in Orange County; 16 lived in Queens; two lived on Staten Island; one lived in Rockland County; 10 lived in Suffolk County; and 11 lived in Westchester County.
"We're locked in a footrace between the spread of COVID and the vaccine's quick distribution, and New Yorkers should stay vigilant as we work to get more shots in arms," Cuomo said in a statement.
"The good news is the holiday spike is over and the experts say that we're on a downward trajectory — we just need to put in the work to keep it that way," he added.
Breakdowns of COVID-19 statistics by region and New York City borough are below:
