201 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,389 Westchester Resident Deaths – Friday, June 5, 2020

(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer during his June 5, 2020 press briefing.)

For Friday, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers:

201 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
2 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 199 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
0 new COVID-19 cases

Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer held his COVID-19 briefing along with Mamaroneck Town Supervisor Nancy Seligson.

Just like everyone else, Latimer is looking at the NY State COVID-19 tracker for county and state level statistics on the pandemic and at the NY State regional  monitoring dashboard to see our progress towards continued reopening.

Important to note expanded reporting now shows fatality data from all nursing homes in the State, including The Osborn in Rye.

The COVID-19 numbers:

Fatalities of Westchester residents:1,389
Fatalities at Westchester nursing homes – The Osborn Home in Rye is reporting six (6) confirmed COVID-19 deaths and six (6) presumed COVID-19 deaths thru June 4th (that’s one new confirmed death since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,519
Numbers of persons tested: 176,084
Tested positive: 33,854
% Positive results: 19.2%
Persons tested today: 4,216
New positives today: 87