Gov. Andrew Cuomo says so far
the UK variant of COVID-19 has not been detected in New York.
"We have not found the
strain in New York. We had several specimens sent to the state lab that were
suspected of being the UK strain, but over the 4,000 tests, we have
not found the strain in the state of New York," says Gov. Cuomo.
Despite that, Cuomo says
he does believe the strain is already here in New York it just hasn't been
detected yet.
Meanwhile, in Nassau
County the infection rate is now at 10.2 %. A total of 1,273 residents tested
positive out of a little more than 12,000 tests Tuesday. A total of seven
Nassau residents died from COVID-19.
In Suffolk County, the
infection rate is now at 12.8%, that is triple what it was less than a month
ago.
More than 1,600 new
cases were confirmed Tuesday out of just under 13,000 tests. Another 11
residents have died.