COVID-19 continues to surge in the Hudson Valley, with the Westchester County Department of Health reporting 427 new cases in the past 24 hours.
There have now been 44,576 COVID-19 cases reported in Westchester out of 967,509 tested.
The overall 4.6 positivity rate has steadily been rising following the start of fall.
There were no new COVID-19 fatalities, as the death toll held at 1,490.
In the past week, the average positive infection rate in Westchester has risen from 2.7 percent on Sunday, Nov. 8 to 3.6 percent on Sunday, Nov. 15.
In that span, the seven-day rolling infection rate in the county rose from 2.8 percent to 4 percent, while the 14-day average rose from 2.4 percent to 3.4 percent in the past five days.
A breakdown of total, active, and new COVID-19 cases in Westchester on Nov. 16, according to the Department of Health:
- Yonkers: 9,024 (503 active, 69 new);
- New Rochelle: 4,105 (344, 45 new);
- Mount Vernon: 3,263 (185, 18 new);
- White Plains: 2,299 (165, 18 new);
- Port Chester: 1,766 (235, 29 new);
- Greenburgh: 1,487 (98, 20 new);
- Ossining Village: 1,350 (136, 24 new);
- Peekskill: 1,318 (144, 16 new);
- Cortlandt: 1,152 (77, 6 new);
- Yorktown: 1,053 (133, 24 new);
- Mount Pleasant: 776 (62, 10 new);
- Mamaroneck Village: 639 (57, 6 new);
- Harrison: 627 (87, 10 new);
- Sleepy Hollow: 597 (71, 14 new);
- Eastchester: 568 (59, 10 new);
- Somers: 552 (46, 8 new);
- Scarsdale: 442 (26, 2 new);
- Dobbs Ferry: 420 (43, 8 new);
- Mount Kisco: 412 (62, 7 new);
- Bedford: 404 (58, 18 new);
- Tarrytown: 385 (30, 8 new);
- New Castle: 335 (50, 5 new);
- Rye City: 332 (45, 5 new);
- North Castle: 316 (44, 5 new);
- Rye Brook: 279 (43, 10 new);
- Elmsford: 246 (18, 2 new)
- Croton-on-Hudson: 246 (18, 5 new);
- Mamaroneck Town: 239 (22, 1 new);
- Pelham: 212 (15, 3 new);
- North Salem: 208 (15, 3 new);
- Pleasantville: 195 (21, 1 new);
- Ossining Town: 192 (14, 2 new);
- Tuckahoe: 177 (18, 3 new);
- Hastings-on-Hudson: 174 (17, 1 new);
- Lewisboro: 183 (24, 3 new);
- Pelham Manor: 162 (14);
- Briarcliff Manor: 162 (18, 5 new);
- Ardsley: 132 (8);
- Irvington: 118 (11, 1 new);
- Bronxville: 120 (17, 2 new);
- Larchmont: 114 (15);
- Buchanan: 62 (8);
- Pound Ridge: 52 (6).
Since the pandemic began in March, there have been 16,876,843 New Yorkers tested for the virus, with 563,690 testing positive. The Department of Health has confirmed 26,159 COVID-19 fatalities.
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