announcer: new york governor andrew cuomo provided an update on the surge in the state s covid-19 cases, going through how many vaccinations have been administered and the smart promotion for residents over the holidays. this is about 40 minutes. gov. cuomo: good morning. welcome, everyone. on my far-right, garrett rhodes, the chancellor, kelly cummings, the director of operations, and listed the roads, and rubbermaid to her left, the budget director robert mujica, the budget director of the state. day 298. ,he numbers for today positivity without micro clusters i should not say without all micro clusters. they put that in there to test me, and test you. it was 5.58 yesterday. the overall positivity with the micro clusters, 5.8. it was 5.89. the positivity in micro clusters, 7.09. 200,000 tests. 64 statewide deaths. they are in our thoughts and prayers, especially this holiday season. what a terrible, abrogating aggravating circumstance in this miserable year. hospitals
you are watching live coverage on c-span. uomo: good morning. be up withasure to everyone this morning. cleans.in corona always we are in queens. theys good to get out of capital and talk to people who are doing the work. i am a queens boy, so this is coming back for me. it was called that before the virus. there is no connection between corona queens and the virus. let me introduce my colleagues. pay foy, chairman of the mta. to my immediate left, sarah fienberg, who runs the transit borough. garrett rhodes to my right, who is the deputy superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. the today is saturday. i know that because it is on the slide. otherwise i may not have known that. days based on the powerpoint. everybody talks about this as uncharted waters, been here before and that is true. but even when you are in uncharted waters that does not mean you proceed blindly. you want to s
deaths. those numbers should give us all pause and they will keep climbing. but the president focused on a different count. the markets are up today, and the president tweets, states should open up asap. the transition to greatness has started, ahead of schedule. > a new york suburb ends its three-month lockdown today. at the library, you can check out a book. to the president, that plateau is a green light to more activity. to the experts of the world health organization, caution equals wisdom. we re right in the middle of the first wave globally. we re still very much in a phase where the disease is actually on the way up. we need to be cognizant of the fact the disease can jump up at any time. we cannot make assumptions that just because the disease is on the way down now that it s going to keep going down and then we re going to get a number of months to get ready for a second wave. we may get a second peak in this wave. a second peak in this wave, worst case scenario