Hospitalizations for COVID-19 in New York State have fallen to their lowest level since mid-December, before the explosion of cases caused by the Omicron variant, the authorities announced this Saturday.
According to the latest figures, there are 3,550 patients hospitalized for coronavirus in the state, which has a population of almost twenty million people, a fact that has not been seen since the past 19 of December.
During January, New York had on some days more than 12,000 hospitalized, result of a wave of infections with the Omicron variant that hit the East Coast of the United States with force.
The number of cases has been falling rapidly since the peak recorded in January and also The positive rate has done so, which is already 2.5% of the tests carried out, after having exceeded 20%.
“New Yorkers should be proud of the continued progress in reducing the numbers since the Omicron peak in January, but this is not the time to let our guard down,” said in a statement the State Governor, Kathy Hochul.
In another sign that New York is already beginning to consider this latest wave of COVID-19, Hochul announced today that the Big Apple subway chained this week three days in a row gone with more than three million passengers, something that has not happened since the arrival of ómicron.
Use of the city’s transport system has increased by 54 percent compared to the end of December, although it is still far from pre-pandemic levels.
New York, which was the epicenter in the United States of the first great wave of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020, accumulate more than 54,000 deaths from the virus since the start of the pandemic, with other 60 new deaths reported in the last day.