ALBANY – The number of new COVID-19 cases in the region has increased by 800 in one day as the holiday surge is expected to continue.
The count of new positive cases in the Hudson Valley/Catskills went from 3,050 on Tuesday to 3,819 the following day, according to the state health department.
There were also eight new deaths in the region reported from the virus – five in Westchester County and one each in Orange, Rockland and Ulster counties.
| COUNTY | TOTAL POSITIVE | NEW POSITIVE |
| Columbia | 6,563 | 33 |
| Delaware | 5,251 | 43 |
| Dutchess | 42,039 | 371 |
| Greene | 5,604 | 62 |
| Orange | 68,796 | 572 |
| Putnam | 14,811 | 144 |
| Rockland | 59,723 | 562 |
| Sullivan | 11,048 | 116 |
| Ulster | 21,150 | 161 |
| Westchester | 162,233 | 1,755 |
