There were 23 coronavirus deaths reported in New York on Saturday and an increase of 1.1 percent in new positive cases of the contagion, the governor said. Seventeen of the deaths were in hospitals and six in nursing homes.
At the height of the pandemic, New York was registering around 800 deaths a day, and nearly 50 percent of those tested were positive for the virus.
New York City’s daily infection rate was down to 1.4 percent, although the figure for the borough of Staten Island was 2.9 percent, the highest for it in five days. It was at a low of 1.1 percent Friday before jumping up the next day.
“That can be a Saturday aberration, but we’re watching it,” the governor said of Staten Island’s situation.
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