New York Goes a Month With a Positivity Rate of Under 1 Percent

The share of virus tests coming back positive in New York State has stayed below 1 percent for 30 straight days, suggesting that the state’s aggressive approach to containing its outbreak — once the most severe in the country — has largely worked.

The state’s positivity rate, announced on Sunday,  remained below 1 percent even as parts of the economy gradually reopened, the number of people being tested continued to trend upward, and other states grappled with sharply rising case counts.

Even Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, in announcing the figure, took the opportunity to urge not celebration but continued restraint, pointing in a statement to New York’s approach to reopening  — slower and more controlled than in most other states — as well as its statewide mask mandate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/world/covid-coronavirus.html

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