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NY’s COVID count down

Melissa Klein

New York’s statewide COVID-19 positivity rate remains below 3 percent and is lower in the Big Apple.

The statewide rate Friday was 2.54 percent, when measured on a seven-day average, and it stood at 1.29 percent in New York City, Gov. Hochul said Saturday.

There were 2,115 patients hospitalized with the virus Friday and 28 New Yorkers died of COVID-19, including nine city residents.

Some 64,712 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered from Friday to Saturday, and 85.9 percent of New York adults have now received at least one dose.

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