New Yorkers age 50 and over will be eligible to receive a coveted COVID-19 vaccination starting Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

Cuomo had lowered the eligibility age to 60 from 65 earlier this month.

“Vaccines will be available for people 50 years old and above, so we are dropping the age as we’re vaccinating more people,” Cuomo said at the Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon during a closed-to-the-press briefing.

“We are in the season of the spring and the spring says it is a time for renewal. It is a time for rebirth. That’s what the spring is about. You can feel it in the air, you can see it on my face.”

During a later conference call with reporters, Cuomo explained that he expanded eligibility as New York expects to see a “dramatic increase” in COVID-19 vaccine allocations from the federal government over the next couple of weeks.

“We are now basically in a flat period in terms of [vaccine] supply,” Cuomo said. “The past couple of weeks, the number has basically been flat in the allocation from the federal government … What you will see in the next couple weeks is a dramatic increase in allocation.”

Since inoculation efforts began in mid-December, more than 5.1 million people in New York — or 26.1 percent of the state’s population — have received at least one vaccine dose.

Meanwhile, the coronavirus statewide positivity rate was 4.1 percent Monday, Cuomo said. 

The state recorded 46 deaths as a result of COVID-19 in the last 24-hour period – which is the lowest death rate the Empire State has seen since Nov. 22, Cuomo said.