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Niagara County
The Niagara County Department of Health issued the following update Tuesday on positive COVID-19 cases in Niagara County:
Source: Niagara County “heat map”
Erie County
As of Sunday, Erie County had 47 new positive coronavirus tests and a yearly total of 12,007 confirmed COVID-19 cases (including 178 on Grand Island and 5,687 in the City of Buffalo). To date, 458,653 people have been tested (2.6% positive), with 706 deaths attributed to the coronavirus. Also, 87,719 people have taken an antibody test (6.8% positive).
Image courtesy of the Erie County “heat map”
On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office released these statistics:
Each region's percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:
|
REGION |
FRIDAY |
SATURDAY |
SUNDAY |
|
Capital Region |
0.4% |
0.6% |
0.9% |
|
Central New York |
0.9% |
0.9% |
1.4% |
|
Finger Lakes |
0.7% |
0.9% |
0.8% |
|
Long Island |
1.1% |
1.0% |
1.2% |
|
Mid-Hudson |
1.5% |
1.1% |
1.9% |
|
Mohawk Valley |
0.7% |
0.2% |
0.4% |
|
New York City |
1.1% |
1.1% |
1.1% |
|
North Country |
0.2% |
0.2% |
0.2% |
|
Southern Tier |
1.1% |
0.9% |
0.9% |
|
Western New York |
1.4% |
1.4% |
1.1% |
In a conference call Sunday, he said, “We've had an ongoing issue with Western New York, and it is not getting dramatically better; it's not getting dramatically worse, but it's not getting dramatically better, either.”
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