New York Gov. Kathy Hochul examined optimistic for Covid-19, she introduced Sunday afternoon on Twitter.
“At the moment I examined optimistic for COVID-19,” Hochul wrote. “Fortunately, I am vaccinated and boosted, and I am asymptomatic. I will be isolating and dealing remotely this week.”
Hochul frolicked in New York Metropolis final week, showing at an occasion Friday with Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., who examined optimistic for Covid-19 on the finish of March.
Optimistic Covid-19 circumstances have been rising in New York Metropolis and the state.
Greater than 9,900 folks within the state examined optimistic Saturday, the latest date for which knowledge are publicly out there Thursday had the best variety of optimistic ends in the state because the finish of January, with 13,902 optimistic circumstances reported.
As of Saturday, the state’s seven-day common positivity charge was 7.2 p.c, up from 7 p.c the earlier week.
Eighty-two p.c of New York’s whole inhabitants has acquired not less than one dose of a vaccine within the state, and 74.2 p.c have been absolutely vaccinated, in response to public knowledge.
Hochul urged New Yorkers to proceed to get vaccinated and take precautions to cease the unfold of Covid-19.
“A reminder to all New Yorkers: get vaccinated and boosted, get examined, and keep house should you do not feel properly,” Hochul tweeted Sunday.
