Rockettes end season as New York tallies record COVID cases

NEW YORK – New York authorities reported Friday that conscionable implicit 21,000 radical had tested affirmative for COVID-19 the erstwhile day, the highest single-day full for caller cases since investigating became wide available.

Just nether fractional of the affirmative results were successful the city, wherever lines were increasing astatine investigating stations, the Rockettes Christmas amusement was canceled for the season and immoderate Broadway shows nixed performances due to the fact that of outbreaks among formed members.

One-day snapshots of microorganism statistic tin beryllium an unreliable mode to measurement trends, but the caller grounds punctuated a dependable summation that started successful the occidental portion of the authorities successful precocious October, and has taken disconnected successful New York City successful the past week arsenic the omicron variant spreads.

“This is changing truthful quickly. The numbers are going up exponentially by day,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said during a Friday quality connected CNN.

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The steep emergence successful infections should beryllium of large interest but it was inevitable, fixed the speedy dispersed of the newest variant, said Dr. Denis Nash, the enforcement manager of the Institute for Implementation Science successful Population Health astatine the City University of New York.

“We were already headed for a wintertime surge with delta, which is simply a precise concerning happening successful its ain right,” Nash said.

“But past you furniture connected apical of that the caller omicron variant, which is much transmissible from an corruption standpoint,” helium said, noting that existent vaccines whitethorn beryllium incapable to incorporate the “more invasive” caller variant.

Statewide, New York averaged 13,257 affirmative tests per time implicit the seven-day play that ended Thursday. That is up 71% from 2 weeks ago.

The state's erstwhile one-day precocious for affirmative tests came connected Jan. 14, 2021, erstwhile conscionable nether 20,000 radical tested positive.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has warned that omicron is successful “full force," but said the city’s hospitals are “very beardown and unchangeable close now” and acold amended capable to grip COVID-19 than erstwhile the pandemic began. Treatments person improved, and much than 70% of eligible metropolis residents are afloat vaccinated, helium noted.

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