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New York’s COVID-19 positivity rate continues to tick up, but remains below 3 percent in the Big Apple, new data shows.

The statewide positivity rate, measured on a seven-day average, was 3.32 percent Friday, up from 3.18 percent two days earlier, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday.

The rate in New York City Friday was 2.58 percent, the lowest in the state.

Of the 179,342 test results reported statewide Friday, 5,524 — or 3.08 percent — were positive.

Twenty six people died of COVID-19 Friday including nine residents of the Big Apple.

The state gave out 61,932 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Friday to Saturday.

It has distributed a total of 23,533,155 doses.

A total of 79.3 percent of New York adults have received at least one shot of the vaccine and 71.2 percent have completed the vaccine series, Hochul said citing federal data.

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