Westchester health officials were reporting 252 new COVID-19 cases in county residents on Wednesday, Dec.8, after reporting 388 the day before and more than 1,600 over the weekend.
This week, Westchester County Executive George Latimer said that there are nearly 8,000 active COVID-19 cases, which represents people who have tested positive within the past two weeks and have not passed the incubation period.
The number of active cases is up from 5,764 last week, 4,662 two weeks ago, and approximately 3,400 three weeks ago.
More than 300 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Westchester, up from around 250 late last week. There were several new virus-related deaths, according to the state Department of Health, bringing the death toll to 1,545 since early March.
A breakdown of the total, active, and new COVID-19 cases in Westchester on Dec. 9, according to the Department of Health:
- Yonkers: 10,807 (1,141 active, 13 new);
- New Rochelle: 5,048 (533, 12 new);
- Mount Vernon: 3,777 (276, 6 new);
- White Plains: 2,943 (431, 18 new);
- Port Chester: 2,166 (235, 8 new);
- Greenburgh: 1,861 (219, 11 new);
- Ossining Village: 1,801 (225, 7 new);
- Peekskill: 1,693 (228, 14 new);
- Cortlandt: 1,411 (157, 12 new);
- Yorktown: 1,424 (225, 13 new);
- Mount Pleasant: 999 (163, 12 new);
- Mamaroneck Village: 908 (166, 10 new);
- Harrison: 895 (164, 9 new);
- Eastchester: 796 (146, 2 new);
- Somers: 744 (107, 18 new);
- Sleepy Hollow: 743 (74, 2 new);
- Mount Kisco: 635 (146, 9 new);
- Bedford: 625 (146 ,10 new);
- Scarsdale: 530 (66, 2 new);
- Dobbs Ferry: 502 (63, 2 new);
- Tarrytown: 490 (61, 1 new);
- Rye City: 471 (99);
- New Castle: 427 (57, 3 new);
- North Castle: 424 (76, 1 new);
- Rye Brook: 369 (48, 2 new);
- Elmsford: 324 (45, 2 new);
- Lewisboro: 315 (83, 2 new);
- Mamaroneck Town: 310 (41, 3 new);
- Croton-on-Hudson: 307 (41, 1 new);
- North Salem: 275 (36, 1 new);
- Pelham: 290 (51, 1 new);
- Pleasantville: 265 (41, 3 new);
- Ossining Town: 242 (30, 6 new);
- Tuckahoe: 221 (18);
- Hastings-on-Hudson: 208 (21, 2 new);
- Briarcliff Manor: 237 (46, 4 new);
- Pelham Manor: 207 (29, 1 new);
- Ardsley: 147 (34, 1 new);
- Bronxville: 178 (42, 1 new);
- Irvington: 163 (32, 1 new);
- Larchmont: 152 (23);
- Pound Ridge: 86 (21, 1 new);
- Buchanan: 85 (12).
On Tuesday, Dec. 8, there were 194,595 COVID-19 tests administered in New York, resulting in 10,600 positive cases as the infection rate jumped to 5.44 percent. A total of 4,993 New Yorkers are hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 4,835 and 95 new COVID-19 fatalities were reported.
"With the winter weather, we have less outdoor dining options, less outdoor activities, and functions, and things are going indoors, where the virus can spread more quickly," Latimer said during his latest COVID-19 briefing. "We also have societal holidays, and in those kinds of gatherings, people come together in a social and family setting, it's nota. community setting."
Statewide, there have been a total of 21.1 million COVID-19 tests administered, with 733,064 New Yorkers testing positive for the virus. Since March, there have been a total of 27,404 COVID-19-related deaths.
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