STATEN ISLAND – The coronavirus has claimed the lives of four more Staten Islanders in the past 24 hours, and 14 new cases of the disease were reported here, city Health Department statistics show.
As of 1 p.m. Monday, 1,072 borough residents are believed to have succumbed to the virus, according to the most recent figures published.
That number represents an increase of four from Sunday’s total of 1,068 deaths.
The fatalities include 893 Staten Islanders with confirmed coronavirus cases, an uptick of five from 24 hours earlier.
In addition, 179 deaths were in the “probable” category, down one from Sunday.
A death is classified as “probable” if the decedent was a city resident who had no known positive laboratory test for the coronavirus, but the death certificate lists “COVID-19” or an equivalent as a cause of death.
A Health Department source said the figures reflect totals as of when they are reported to the agency and not when the deaths occur. All data is preliminary and subject to change.
Also as of Monday afternoon, there have been 14,187 confirmed coronavirus cases in the borough since the pandemic’s outbreak, the data said.
There had been 14,173 cases reported at the same time on Sunday.
Similar to the death totals, the daily number of new confirmed cases has fluctuated over the past eight days, but overall have remained extremely low.
Those figures ranged from a low of seven on Tuesday into Wednesday to a high of 25 from Thursday into Friday. The new-case numbers have decreased each day since Friday.
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Throughout the five boroughs, there were 216,199 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Monday afternoon.
The number represented a jump of 275 from Sunday’s tally of 215,924.
Citywide, the death toll had reached 23,323 at 1 p.m. Monday, a bump of 40 from the 23,283 fatalities recorded 24 hours earlier.
That tally was noticeably higher than the daily increases reported last week.
The fatalities consist of 18,708 individuals who were confirmed coronavirus cases, along with 4,615 others whose deaths were deemed as “probable” COVID-19 cases.
Meanwhile, there was no change in the number of coronavirus hospitalizations in the borough.
On Monday morning, 18 patients were being cared for on Staten Island, the same as Sunday.
By contrast, near the height of the pandemic over three months ago on April 8, 554 Islanders were hospitalized with the coronavirus.
At Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), six patients were being treated Monday morning, said Christian Preston, a spokesperson.
Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC) was caring for 12 coronavirus patients on Monday, the same number as Sunday, Alex Lutz, a spokesman, said.
Four of the RUMC patients were in the intensive-care unit, a dip of one from 24 hours earlier.
Meanwhile, at least 3,495 coronavirus patients have been treated and released from the borough’s two hospital systems since the pandemic struck.
SIUH’s two campuses had discharged 2,260 patients as of Friday, the most recent day for which those figures are available, said Preston.
RUMC has treated and released 1,235 patients as of Monday, Lutz said.
With respect to testing, the data show 2,979 of every 100,000 Staten Islanders checked have received positive results for the coronavirus, according to 2018 Census data projections and the Health Department’s Monday afternoon tally.
Staten Island’s infection rate remains the second highest among the five boroughs.
Officials, however, stress the examinations do not necessarily reflect the full spread of the virus.
The Bronx’s infection rate has topped the city since late April.
In that borough, 3,382 residents per 100,000 have tested positive. The Bronx has had 48,437 confirmed cases.
Queens has the third highest rate of confirmed coronavirus cases in the city, with 2,887 residents per 100,000 testing positive. There have been 65,803 cases in that borough, the second-most populous.
Brooklyn, the borough with the largest population, has the fourth-lowest rate of infection per 100,000 residents – 2,328.
Brooklyn’s 60,120 cases are the second most among the five boroughs, behind Queens.
Manhattan has the lowest infection rate in the city with 1,690 per 100,000 residents testing positive of those who were examined.
There have been 27,524 positive cases in Manhattan, the data said.