202 COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,402 Westchester Resident Deaths – Friday, June 12, 2020

(PHOTO: Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer during his June 12, 2020 press briefing.)

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

202 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
4 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 198 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);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 at Peekskill City Hall along with Peekskill Mayor Andre Rainey, State Senator Pete Harckham, County Legislator Colin Smith and Deputy Mayor Vivian McKenzie.

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:1,402
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 11th (that’s no new confirmed deaths since the prior update). There is no data from Rye Manor or Vienna Senior Housing.)
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,533
Numbers of persons tested: 200,890
Tested positive: 34,175
% Positive results: 17.0%
Persons tested today: 4,954
New positives today: 69