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The Westchester Department of Health was reporting 315 new COVID-19 cases out of 6,659 tests administered throughout the county on Wednesday, Feb. 3, as the number of newly reported infections continues dwindling.
As of Thursday, Feb. 4, the county was monitoring 8,764 active COVID-19 cases, down from 9,391 the day before.
There have now been 95,989 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Westchester since the pandemic began last year out of more than 1.8 million tested. The 5.3 percent positive infection rate is among the lowest in the Hudson Valley.
New COVID-19-related fatalities were reported in Westchester bringing the total to 2,115 - 1,948 county residents - deaths since last March.
There are currently 521 COVID-19 patients being treated in Westchester hospitals, down from 569 a week ago, and 588 two weeks ago.
Latimer said that at the two facilities the county is running vaccination sites have been busy, with the health clinic in White Plains vaccinating 5,054 Westchester residents, while more than 22,000 have been vaccinated at the County Center, where they've been administering approximately 1,000 doses daily.
In total, 27,447 vaccinations have been administered at the two sites.
"That number compared against a million Westchester residents is not that impressive," Latimer said. "But as that number rises, we're looking for a comparable drop in the number of infections.
"At some point in time we're going to look for the number of people vaccinated to exceed the number of people who have been infection," he added. "The value of the vaccination will be shown in the number of infections."
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Westchester, by municipality, according to the Department of Health on Feb. 4:
- Yonkers: 2,364;
- New Rochelle: 820;
- Mount Vernon: 730;
- White Plains: 543;
- Yorktown: 328;
- Greenburgh: 327;
- Ossining Village: 283;
- Port Chester: 273;
- Peekskill: 268;
- Cortlandt: 259;
- Mount Pleasant: 206;
- Harrison: 166;
- Eastchester: 163;
- Sleepy Hollow: 154;
- Mamaroneck Village: 148;
- Somers: 148;
- Bedford: 127;
- Tarrytown: 115;
- Rye City: 92;
- North Castle: 97;
- Dobbs Ferry: 91;
- Mount Kisco: 88;
- Scarsdale: 74;
- Mamaroneck Town: 68;
- Tuckahoe: 61;
- Pleasantville: 61;
- Lewisboro: 59;
- Ossining Town: 57;
- Rye Brook: 57;
- Hastings-on-Hudson: 53;
- New Castle: 52;
- Pelham: 48;
- Larchmont: 48;
- Bronxville: 44;
- Elmsford: 44;
- Irvington: 41;
- Briarcliff Manor: 39;
- Croton-on-Hudson: 39;
- Pelham Manor: 35;
- Ardsley: 31;
- North Salem: 27
- Pound Ridge: 19;
- Buchanan: 17.
There were 169,186 COVID-19 tests administered in New York on Feb. 3, according to Cuomo, resulting in 7,967 new cases for a 4.38 percent positive infection rate, down slightly from earlier in the week.
The latest infection rate is the lowest the state has recorded since Nov. 28.
More than 100 COVID-19 patients were discharged from New York hospitals, as the total dropped to 7,967 still being treated statewide. There are 1,506 patients in ICU, and 986 are currently intubated. There were 135 new COVID-19-related deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
Statewide, there have been 1,440,718 confirmed COVID-19 cases in New York out of 32.78 million tested. There have been 35,767 virus-related deaths reported since the pandemic began.
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