ALBANY – For the last several days, daily new cases of COVID-19 in the Hudson Valley/Catskills averaged around 2,000. They have now exceeded 3,000 cases in one day – Tuesday – and with the holidays here, medical experts are saying they will climb even higher.
New one-day positives totaled 3,030 with five new deaths reported – two in Rockland, two in Ulster and one in Westchester.
| County | Total Positive | New Positive |
| Columbia | 6,530 | 68 |
| Delaware | 5,208 | 36 |
| Dutchess | 41,668 | 293 |
| Greene | 5,632 | 52 |
| Orange | 68,224 | 470 |
| Putnam | 14,667 | 134 |
| Rockland | 59,161 | 380 |
| Sullivan | 10,932 | 80 |
| Ulster | 20,989 | 117 |
| Westchester | 160,478 | 1,400 |
