24 New, 161 Active, 882 Total COVID-19 Positives in Rye; 1,797 Deaths in Westchester – Monday, January 18, 2021

Remember that Rye guy and Westchester County boss George Latimer moved his COVID-19 briefings from daily to now twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays. So no briefing on the other weekdays, but we do expect to continue to post daily COVID-19 counts for Rye and Westchester County for the foreseeable future.

For Monday, January 18, 2021, Westchester reported the following City of Rye numbers via the County COVID dashboard.

882 total COVID-19 cases since inception;
161 active COVID-19 cases (this assumes the remaining 721 have run the average two week contagion cycle and are no longer active);
24 new COVID-19 cases

Just like everyone else, county executives look 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 reopening.

The COVID-19 numbers:

Fatalities of Westchester residents: 1,797
Fatalities at Westchester nursing homes – The Osborn Home in Rye is reporting eight (8) confirmed COVID-19 nursing home deaths, six (6) presumed COVID-19 nursing home deaths and one (1) COVID-19 adult care facility death thru January 17th.
Fatalities in Westchester: 1,951
Numbers of persons tested: 1,626,356
Tested positive: 84,420
% Positive results: 5.2%
Persons tested today: 10,771
New positives today: 712