NYS COVID-19 test positivity rate down to 2nd lowest in U.S.


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Thursday, 29 Oct 2020

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- New York State's COVID-19 test positivity rate was ranked the second lowest in the Unite States, Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted on Wednesday, quoting statistics from Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC).

New York's positivity rate stood at 1.39 percent, right after Maine with 0.77 percent and before New Hampshire with 1.5 percent, according to CRC, which annotated that "not all states report all test results. Positivity is based on a 7-day rolling average."

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