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Just over 100 homeless people out of 3,333 approached by cops and outreach workers as they left the subway system during the overnight shutdowns have remained in shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted Thursday.

Between May 6, when the system first shuttered for coronavirus cleaning, and Wednesday, de Blasio provided vague data about the number of people who were “engaged” and the number who agreed to go to hospitals or shelters.

By Wednesday, 3,004 people had been “engaged” and 1,620 accepted help, according to the mayor.

Advocates expressed doubts about the figures, saying city officials were likely counting the same people multiple times and ignoring accounts by homeless individuals who said they were taken to shelters but never entered the facilities for fear of contracting COVID-19.

On Thursday, during his daily coronavirus briefing from City Hall, de Blasio finally admitted the program’s success wasn’t as clear as he’d first claimed.

Only 824 individuals accepted help during the eight-day period, 201 “made it to shelter” if only for a few hours, and just 103 stayed inside.

Still the mayor put a positive spin on the effort.

“If 100 people came in and stayed in, that would be a victory unto itself,” de Blasio said.

Jacquelyn Simone, policy analyst at the Coalition for the Homeless, applauded the new information but said the city needs a different approach.

“I think that the greater clarity on the numbers at least today have more accurately reflected what we are hearing and seeing on the ground where many of the people who agreed to get on the bus did not necessarily know they would be taken to a very large congregate shelter and many of them declined to enter the shelter once they recognized the crowding and risk of COVID at that facility,” Simone said.

“The answer to helping people who are on the subways and the streets is not to move them into large congregate shelters. The answer is to give them a private, safe space,” she said, calling on the mayor to house more homeless in the city’s vacant hotel rooms.

City officials have already moved 8,000 former shelter residents into commercial hotels where they have more space to practice social distancing. De Blasio has refused to transfer street and subway homeless directly into hotels, arguing that they need additional services only available in shelters.