New York City’s number of daily COVID-19 cases declined over the past week, officials said Monday — though the country’s infection rate is rising.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city’s latest seven-day daily average of new cases was 2,773, which represents a steady decline over the past week and the lowest rolling average since March 26.
The average daily positivity rate for the past seven days was 5.27 percent, down from 6.55 a week ago, city figures show.
Meanwhile, the Big Apple set a record of 553, 342 doses vaccine doses in one week last week.
Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio speaks during the opening of a vaccination center for Broadway workers in Times Square on April 12, 2021 in New York City. Noam Galai/Getty ImagesThe state has administered 12 million shots to date, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a separate press briefing — adding that New York’s daily positive-test rate is an average 3.2 percent for the past week, or the lowest in a month. The city and state use different measurements for their data so are not comparable.
Cuomo said the number of New Yorkers hospitalized with the coronavirus Sunday was 4,118 — the lowest figure since December.
But the country’s average daily positive-test rate for the past seven days hit 5.1 percent Sunday — the highest figure in more than a month — with 48,482 new cases reported that day, according to Johns Hopkins University.
There were 48,482 new cases reported that day, which the Daily Mail noted was part of a seven-day rolling average that topped 70,000 — the most since Feb. 26.
Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio speaks during the opening of a vaccination center for Broadway workers in Times Square on April 12, 2021 in New York City. Noam Galai/Getty ImagesDr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious-disease physician, warned Sunday that even the most effective current two-dose vaccines may not be enough to keep the virus in check in the long run.
“We very well may need to get booster shots to keep up the level of protection’’ within as soon as a year after the first two doses, he told MSNBC.
Highly contagious variants are helping to fuel new COVID-19 cases, experts have said.
In New York City, the homegrown variant B.1.526 and the UK’s B.1.1.7 are in all five boroughs — with the former slightly more common in The Bronx and parts of Queens and the latter in southern Brooklyn, eastern Queens and Staten Island, Big Apple officials said Monday.
