There have now been 36,621 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Westchester residents out of 482,384 who have been tested for the virus. The total positive infection rate has dropped to 7.6 percent.
There have been 1,449 COVID-19 deaths reported in Westchester since the pandemic first struck New Rochelle in early March before rapidly spreading throughout the region.
A breakdown of cumulative positive and active cases in Westchester, by municipality, as of Friday, Aug. 21, according to the Department of Health:
- Yonkers: 7,597 (157);
- New Rochelle: 3,181 (26);
- Mount Vernon: 2,830 (32);
- White Plains: 1,913 (24);
- Port Chester: 1,314 (15);
- Peekskill: 1,045 (14);
- Ossining Village: 1,101 (8);
- Greenburgh: 1,239 (25);
- Cortlandt: 937 (15);
- Yorktown: 751 (9);
- Mount Pleasant: 598 (6);
- Mamaroneck Village: 487 (9);
- Eastchester: 464 (3);
- Sleepy Hollow: 435 (19);
- Harrison: 433 (3);
- Somers: 409 (6);
- Scarsdale: 371 (3);
- Dobbs Ferry: 333 (1);
- Tarrytown: 300 (1);
- Mount Kisco: 290 (1);
- Bedford: 269 (3);
- Rye City: 221 (2);
- North Castle: 219 (3);
- New Castle: 215 (2);
- Elmsford: 213 (2);
- Croton-on-Hudson: 212 (2);
- Rye Brook: 191 (2);
- Mamaroneck Town: 177 (0);
- Pelham: 174 (3);
- Ossining Town: 160 (2);
- North Salem: 150 (1);
- Tuckahoe: 143 (3);
- Hastings-on-Hudson: 140 (1);
- Pleasantville: 136 (0);
- Pelham Manor: 124 (4);
- Lewisboro: 122 (4);
- Briarcliff Manor: 111 (0);
- Ardsley: 102 (1);
- Bronxville: 88 (1);
- Irvington: 87 (0);
- Larchmont: 75 (0);
- Buchanan: 42 (2);
- Pound Ridge: 29 (0).
Statewide, 7,452,267 New Yorkers have been tested for the virus, with 428,512 testing positive. There have been 25,278 fatalities statewide since the pandemic began.
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