New York might have seen the worst of its latest Omicron winter surge, because the statewide positivity case price has slowly begun to lower, New York Governor Kathy Hochul introduced Tuesday. However hospitalizations on account of COVID-19 within the state are nonetheless on the rise and tens of 1000's of circumstances are nonetheless being reported every day. "It appears like we is likely to be cresting over that peak," Hochul mentioned at a briefing Tuesday. "Circumstances are slowing down. The speed of improve is slowing down. However they're nonetheless excessive. We aren't on the finish, however I wished to say that is, to me, a glimmer of hope. A glimmer of hope at a time we desperately want that." On Monday, New York reported 48,686 new COVID-19 circumstances, averaging a 20.9% positivity price over the prior 7 days. The state additionally recorded 1,642 new hospitalizations on Monday, in response to the New York State Division of Well being. The state additionally recorded 78 extra deaths on Monday, in response to information collected by Johns Hopkins College. Hochul mentioned that each case is "one too many." "I look ahead to the day when that plummets," she mentioned. Though COVID-19 hospitalizations proceed to extend in New York, the speed of improve is slowing, Hochul mentioned, describing the development as "very encouraging." The governor additionally famous that latest hospital quantity all through the state has usually been akin to when Delta was the dominant pressure. "It doesn't imply that these are empty beds," Hochul warned. "That is nonetheless a really excessive variety of folks in hospitals who want fixed care, who want nurses, who want docs, who want folks to maintain them." In New York Metropolis, which has repeatedly reported record-breaking new every day infections since Omicron turned the dominant pressure,the seven-day common positivity price on Monday stood at 20.1%, down barely from a excessive of twenty-two.5% every week earlier, in response to the state well being division. The New York Metropolis area in whole reported 27,908 new circumstances Monday. Hochul mentioned the most recent downward developments should proceed earlier than lifting present protocols. Final week, the governor prolonged the state's masks mandate, which requires masking in all indoor public locations except the venue has a vaccine requirement, by not less than February 1. "I would like the luxurious of time," Hochul mentioned Tuesday. "I'm so wanting ahead to, simply so you understand, personally, to raise all these restrictions that have been put in place for the suitable causes, however I do know there'll come a time."
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