COVID-19 cases in NY surpass 400,000

ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) — The number of COVID-19 cases in New York has surpassed 400,000.

With 786 new cases found on Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state’s new total number of cases identified this year is 400,299.

Those new cases were found in 1.06 percent of the 73,558 people who were tested on Thursday.

Here’s a look at the percentage of people who tested positive in each region of the state:

REGION	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY
Capital Region	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%
Central New York	1.2%	0.8%	1.9%
Finger Lakes	1.4%	0.9%	1.7%
Long Island	1.3%	0.9%	1.0%
Mid-Hudson	1.2%	0.6%	0.9%
Mohawk Valley	1.1%	1.1%	1.2%
New York City	1.2%	1.0%	1.1%
North Country	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
Southern Tier	0.5%	0.7%	1.3%
Western New York	1.7%	0.9%	1.0%

New cases appeared in 47 different counties.

County	Total Positive	New Positive
Albany	2,190	7
Allegany	64	0
Broome	784	14
Cattaraugus	134	3
Cayuga	124	0
Chautauqua	155	3
Chemung	148	0
Chenango	166	3
Clinton	107	0
Columbia	482	0
Cortland	56	1
Delaware	91	0
Dutchess	4,262	7
Erie	7,660	36
Essex	51	0
Franklin	35	1
Fulton	264	1
Genesee	246	2
Greene	264	1
Hamilton	6	0
Herkimer	184	2
Jefferson	95	0
Lewis	31	0
Livingston	144	4
Madison	371	3
Monroe	4,120	46
Montgomery	128	3
Nassau	42,232	68
Niagara	1,327	12
NYC	218,403	351
Oneida	1,806	15
Onondaga	3,078	28
Ontario	293	3
Orange	10,820	10
Orleans	287	1
Oswego	216	5
Otsego	88	2
Putnam	1,355	7
Rensselaer	588	2
Rockland	13,691	8
Saratoga	587	2
Schenectady	852	4
Schoharie	62	1
Schuyler	13	0
Seneca	73	0
St. Lawrence	227	0
Steuben	272	0
Suffolk	41,911	62
Sullivan	1,464	4
Tioga	159	8
Tompkins	181	1
Ulster	1,853	2
Warren	274	1
Washington	249	1
Wayne	201	6
Westchester	35,226	43
Wyoming	101	2
Yates	48	0

Here is New York’s COVID-19 breakdown for Thursday:

• Patient Hospitalization – 826 (-25)
• Patients Newly Admitted – 87 (+8)
• Hospital Counties – 33
• Number ICU – 178 (+5)
• Number ICU with Intubation – 92 (-6)
• Total Discharges – 71,371 (+92)
• Deaths – 8
• Total Deaths – 24,968