New York’s COVID Positivity Rate Drops Below 4% For First Time Since November – CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Unfold of the Omicron variant continues to ease up in New York.

State well being officers say the positivity price is now 3.7%. That’s the primary time the single-day positivity price has been beneath 4% since Nov. 26.

There are additionally fewer hospitalizations. At present, simply over 5,400 individuals are hospitalized with COVID. That’s the bottom quantity since Christmas.

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