According to city data, there have been a few cases of covid-19 in New York City over the past few days, but that may be a sign that the wave of infections may have peaked.
People walk by a Covid-19 vaccination site at a mall near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
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The city saw a seven-day average of 40,608 cases from January 2 to January 6, the most it had seen so far.
On January 3, the seven day average was 749, which decreased roughly 30% to an average of 518 on January 6.
On January 2, the city-wide seven-day average of 3,409.67 cases per 100,000 people decreased 25% to 2,556.66 cases per 100,000 people by January 6.
Deaths have remained steady over this time frame, hitting a seven-day average of 51 on January 4 and 5, a recent high, and an average of 50 on January 6.
On Friday, Kathy Hochul said that it was too early to say that the decline was a sign of a peak. The Commissioner of the New York City Health Department said that he had not seen a decline in the rate of growth.
The number is big.
832,304. The most recent day data was available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which shows how many new Covid-19 cases the U.S. reported on January 7. It is the second-highest number of new cases reported in a single day.
The key background.
At the end of November and the beginning of December, cases in New York and across the U.S. began to increase. Health officials in South Africa said that the wave of infections lasted less time than the delta wave. By the end of December, the country had climbed past the peak number of cases, and the nation's leading infectious-disease scientist said he expected nearly every other country to follow the same trajectory, according to the Washington Post.
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