Long Island no longer has the highest infection rate of the state in New York, although the weekend saw a slight increase in its positivity rate.
The average seven-day infection rate of those tested on Long Island rose from 4.31 percent on Friday, February 19 to 4.27 percent the next day and to 4.35 percent on Sunday, February 21. the entire country’s rate dropped from 3.53 percent to 3.52 percent after a boom after the holidays.
On Monday, February 22, there were 986 COVID-19 patients – down from 1111 – hospitalized on Long Island, representing 0.03 percent of the region’s population. The state also reported that 657 of the 865 ICU beds in Long Island were occupied by COVID-19 patients, leaving 22 percent available in the event of a further outbreak of the virus.
If Long Island – or any of the other nine regions of the state – is in danger of reaching its 90 percent capacity rate within three weeks, Cuomo has promised to close the entire region.
The New York Department of Health reports 516 new COVID-19 cases in Nassau, bringing the total to 144,131, while the 563 new infections in Suffolk bring the total to 158,592.
Four new COVID-19 deaths were reported in Suffolk as the total rose to 3,035, according to the state, and there was one in Nassau, as the death toll has risen to 2,875 since the pandemic began.
“Thanks to the hard work and dedication of New Yorkers, our COVID is hitting back more and more every day and this has enabled us to start reopening different facets of the economy as part of our rebuilding to COVID,” said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
“Not only are our hospitalization and infection rates declining, but we are also continuing to expand the already extensive vaccination network in New York to ensure that underserved communities are not denied access to these life-saving medications. While we are not yet out of the forest is not, we have the momentum on our side.
“As long as we remain united and continue to do what we know, we will finally defeat this invisible enemy and become normal again.”
The latest outline of communities with the most confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nassau, according to the most recent data provided by the Department of Health on February 22:
- Levittown: 3,719;
- Free port: 3,002;
- Hicksville: 3,001;
- Hempstead: 2,998;
- East Meadow: 2,780;
- Valleinstroom: 2,676;
- Ocean: 2,272;
- Elmont: 2,269;
- Langstrand: 2,258;
- Franklin Square: 2,224;
- Glen Cove: 2,075;
- Uniondale: 1,946;
- Massapequa: 1,683;
- Rockville Center: 1,642;
- Baldwin: 1,490;
- Woodmere: 1,474;
- West Hempstead: 1,423
- Plainview: 1,417;
- North Bellmore: 1,405;
- Northern Massapequa: 1,363;
- Wantagh: 1 359;
- Mineola: 1,319;
- Lynbrook: 1,319;
- Massapequapark: 1,296;
- Merrick: 1,249;
- East Massapequa: 1,293;
- Seaford: 1,269.
According to the Department of Health, the outline of cases reported in Suffolk County is:
- Brookhaven: 44,213;
- Islip: 39,319;
- Babylon: 22 042;
- Huntington: 17 771;
- Smithtown: 11,074;
- Southampton: 4,717;
- Riverhead: 2,955;
- East Hampton: 1,404;
- Southold: 1,401;
- Shelter Island: 45.
According to Cuomo, 142,019 COVID-19 tests were administered in New York on February 21, resulting in 5,804 new cases with a positive infection rate of 4.33 percent.
89 new COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours.
Across the country, a total of 1,578,785 positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed from more than 36 million tests administered. There have been a total of 37,851 virus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic
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