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The positive testing rate in all focus areas under the state's Micro-Cluster strategy is 3.10 percent, and outside the focus zone areas is 1.36 percent.
Within the focus areas, 13,283 test results were reported Saturday, Oct. 30, yielding 412 positives.
In the remainder of the state, not counting these focus areas, 135,652 test results were reported, yielding 1,843 positives.
Here are positivity testing rates for the last three days on Long Island:
- Thursday, Oct. 28: 1.3 percent
- Friday, Oct. 29: 1.3 percent
- Saturday, Oct. 30: 1.4 percent
In Nassau County, 141 new cases were reported on Saturday, with another 142 in Suffolk County.
There were 17 deaths due to COVID-19 in New York State on Tuesday, with two on Long Island (one each in Nassau and Suffolk counties) -- bringing the total to 25,824 during the pandemic.
Here is overall state data for Saturday:
- Patient Hospitalization - 1,125 (+4)
- Patients Newly Admitted - 134
- Hospital Counties - 50
- Number ICU - 259 (+11)
- Number ICU with Intubation - 117 (-5)
- Total Discharges - 79,831 (+114)
- Deaths - 17
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