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Hundreds of new infections were reported in both Nassau and Suffolk, though both counties have seen an improvement after there was a surge following the holiday season.
There have now been 145,115 positive COVID-19 cases in Suffolk out of 2.53 million tests administered countywide, according to the state Department of Health. In Nassau, there have been 130,386 confirmed cases out of 2.5 million tested.
As of Tuesday, Feb. 2, there were 1,415 COVID-19 patients hospitalized on Long Island, representing 0.05 percent of the region's population, the highest rate in New York.
The seven-day average infection rate for those tested on Long Island has been dropping, but sits at 6.03 percent, the highest rate statewide.
If Long Island - or any of the state's nine other regions - finds itself in danger of hitting its 90 percent hospital capacity rate within three weeks, Cuomo has vowed to shut down the entire region.
"Long Island... Long Island... Long Island..." Cuomo said on Tuesday. "We've been talking about Long Island and the Mohawk Valley, which have both been problematic, but Long Island has been problematic for a good period of time."
Nineteen new COVID-19 fatalities were reported in Suffolk, as the total rose to 2,815, according to the state, and in Nassau, the death toll climbed to 2,693 since the pandemic began.
The latest breakdown of the communities with the most confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nassau, according to the most recent data provided by the county Department of Health on Feb. 2:
- Levittown: 3,225;
- Freeport: 2,630;
- Hicksville: 2,583;
- Hempstead: 2,577;
- East Meadow: 2,432;
- Valley Stream: 2,268;
- Long Beach: 2,011;
- Oceanside: 1,979;
- Elmont: 1,950;
- Franklin Square: 1,937;
- Glen Cove: 1,810;
- Uniondale: 1,674;
- Massapequa: 1,499;
- Rockville Centre: 1,437;
- Baldwin: 1,280;
- Woodmere: 1,272;
- West Hempstead: 1,224
- Plainview: 1,219;
- Wantagh: 1,207;
- North Massapequa: 1,201;
- North Bellmore: 1,197;
- Massapequa Park: 1,141;
- Merrick: 1,140;
- Mineola: 1,134;
- Lynbrook: 1,133;
- East Massapequa: 1,120.
The breakdown of cases reported in Suffolk County, according to the Department of Health:
- Brookhaven: 40,279;
- Islip: 36,168;
- Babylon: 20,090;
- Huntington: 16,007;
- Smithtown: 10,118;
- Southampton: 4,312;
- Riverhead: 2,683;
- East Hampton: 1,309;
- Southold: 1,290;
- Shelter Island: 41.
There were 150,199 COVID-19 tests administered in New York on Feb. 1, according to Cuomo, resulting in 8,067 new cases for a 5.47 percent positive infection rate, down from more than six percent earlier in the week.
Sixty-four COVID-19 patients were admitted into New York hospitals, as the total rose to 8,067 still being treated statewide, down by more than 500 a week ago. There are 1,503 patients in ICU, and 1,004 are currently intubated. There were 146 new COVID-19-related deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
There have been 25 straight days of the seven-day average infection declining, from a peak of 7.94 percent on Jan. 4 to 4.95 percent on Feb. 1, the first time it was under 5 percent since Dec. 6, the beginning of the "holiday surge" of COVID-19 cases that began with Thanksgiving.
"The holiday surge has tapered off and we're on the decline," Cuomo added. "It's the first time we've had this low of a positivity rate since the beginning of December, which was just at the start of the holiday surge. So we saw the infection started spreading on Thanksgiving."
Statewide, there have been 1,427,379 confirmed COVID-19 cases in New York out of 32.48 million tested. There have been 35,466 virus-related deaths reported since the pandemic began
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