ALBANY – Twenty-one additional residents of the region died on Wednesday from COVID-19, as the pandemic continues, the State Health Department reported.
More than half of the deaths were in Westchester County, where 11 people died. There were three deaths in Orange County; two deaths in each of Delaware, Dutchess, and Putnam counties; and one death in Rockland County.
There were 3,379 new cases of the virus across the region on Wednesday.
| COUNTY | TOTAL POSITIVE | NEW POSITIVE |
| Columbia | 8,894 | 122 |
| Delaware | 6,787 | 75 |
| Dutchess | 59,146 | 410 |
| Greene | 7,729 | 120 |
| Orange | 99,455 | 670 |
| Putnam | 22,097 | 166 |
| Rockland | 87,192 | 370 |
| Sullivan | 16,741 | 138 |
| Ulster | 28,258 | 279 |
| Westchester | 235,818 | 1,029 |
The statistics of new cases do not include those who tested positive with home test kits.
