NEW YORK (WBEN) – New York state's coronavirus-related hospitalizations have reached their lowest level since late November, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday.
The state's hospitalizations fell by 50 patients to 3,834, the lowest since Nov. 30, Cuomo said.
The number of patients in intensive care declined by 2 to 866, while the number of intubated patients fell by 8 to 535.
Cuomo said Friday that the state's hospitalizations were "fully back" to what they were before the "holiday surge," when the number of patients spiked between Thanksgiving and early January before beginning to decline.
The state reported another 8,235 cases and 58 deaths on Saturday.
The state's single-day positivity rate was 2.78%, while the seven-day positivity rate was 3.03%.
.@HealthNYGov reports daily percentage positive results by county at: https://t.co/bUCPJyio4x. 4/16/2021: 7.0%; 7-day positivity rate: 5.8%. /end
— Erie County Department of Health 😷 (@ECDOH) April 17, 2021
Cuomo also announced more than 13 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in New York State. 249,255 doses have been administered across the state's vast distribution network in the last 24 hours, and nearly 1.5 million doses have been administered over the past seven days. To date, more than 3 million doses have been administered through New York State-run and FEMA-partnered mass vaccination sites.
