The highest percentage of those who tested positive for antibodies were found in New York City, where the rate was 21 percent, and Long Island at 16.7 percent, and 11.7 percent for the suburbs of Rockland and Westchester. In comparison, samples taken in the rest of the state totaled 3.6 percent.
Of those that tested, 52 percent were women with 12 percent testing positive, while nearly 16 percent of men tested positive, Cuomo said.
"Testing is going to be a major operation that happens from now until the situation is over," he said. Cuomo added that the need for continued testing for COVID-19 not only helps determine the rate of infection in the community and identifies those who have the antibody to the novel coronavirus, it also minimizes the spread of the virus by identifying those who are positive.
The governor also said he would like to see more testing take place in the densely populated public housing areas in New York City, and more testing in African American and Latino communities, when the second phase begins.Cuomo said the data also indicates that New York may soon experience a downward trend in the number of COVID-19 cases as summer approaches.
"The number of new cases walking through the door is relatively flat," he said."We'd like to see that go down, but it's not going up either. We want to see the number of infections reduced. this is the best indicator of how containment is working and how the close down policies are working."
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