NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- New York City's COVID-19 test positivity rate on a seven-day average went down to 8.44 percent, compared with 8.82 percent one day earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted on Monday.
Meanwhile, de Blasio said that there were 240 new hospital admissions and new cases of the coronavirus reached 4,743. "We need to KEEP fighting while we're waiting for more vaccines so we can turn this situation around."
