Covid-19: Westchester Sees New Uptick In Cases; Latest Breakdown By Community

After three straight days of decreasing COVID-19 numbers in Westchester, the county saw a slight uptick in new cases, though the infection rate in the region continues to slowly drop.

The breakdown of active COVID-19 cases in Westchester on Thursday, Jan. 28.
Photo Credit: *Westchester County*

Zak Failla

01/28/2021 4:30 p.m.

The Westchester Department of Health is reporting 791 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total in the county to a total of 92,062 positive infections (5.3 percent) since the pandemic began last March. Nearly 1.75 million tests have been administered countywide.

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Health officials are now monitoring 10,709 active cases, down from more than 10,925 the previous day. Ten new COVID-19-related deaths brought the total to 2,039 fatalities during the pandemic.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Westchester, by municipality, according to the Department of Health on Thursday, Jan. 28:

Yonkers: 2,794;
New Rochelle: 937;
Mount Vernon: 849;
White Plains: 590;
Greenburgh: 411;
Ossining Village: 395;
Yorktown: 364;
Port Chester: 350;
Peekskill: 342;
Cortlandt: 349;
Sleepy Hollow: 229;
Mamaroneck Village: 227;
Mount Pleasant: 218;
Eastchester: 216;
Harrison: 191;
Somers: 190;
Tarrytown: 159;
Bedford: 148;
Rye City: 118;
Mount Kisco: 114;
Mamaroneck Town: 102;
Dobbs Ferry: 102;
North Castle: 99;
New Castle: 85;
Scarsdale: 85;
Rye Brook: 82;
Pleasantville: 82;
Tuckahoe: 78;
Pelham: 78;
Ossining Town: 74;
Lewisboro: 73;
Larchmont: 69;
Briarcliff Manor: 66;
Hastings-on-Hudson: 62;
Bronxville: 59;
Irvington: 54;
Elmsford: 52;
Croton-on-Hudson: 51;
Pelham Manor: 51;
Ardsley: 35;
North Salem: 30;
Pound Ridge: 25;
Buchanan: 24.

There were 250,668 COVID-19 tests administered in New York on Jan. 27, according to Cuomo, resulting in 13,398 new cases for a 5.34 percent positive infection rate, down from more than six percent earlier in the week.

Two hundred and fifty-one COVID-19 patients were discharged from New York hospitals, leaving 8,520 still being treated statewide. There are 1,584 patients in ICU and 1,024 are currently intubated. There were 162 new COVID-19-related deaths reported in the past 24 hours.

Statewide, a total of 1,374,480 positive COVID-19 cases have been confirmed out of 31.37 million tests that have been administered. There have been a total of 34,742 virus-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

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