Four more Long Islanders have died of the coronavirus, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said Saturday, raising the local death toll to 6,687.
The fatality rate has dwindled considerably from the worst days of the pandemic, before the availability of the vaccine, when deaths were in the double digits.
Also Saturday, Hochul’s office said about 800 more Long Islanders tested positive for the coronavirus. There have been about 418,000 people total who have tested positive on the Island, according to the state’s COVID-19 tracker online.
The Island’s positivity rate for the virus, averaged over seven days, was 4.23% on Friday, down from 4.28% on Thursday. The rate was 4.27% on Wednesday.
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