STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The city Health Department has added one more coronavirus (COVID-19) death to Staten Island’s fatality total, while 29 new cases of the disease were recorded here in the past 24 hours.
As of 1 p.m. Monday, the coronavirus is believed to have claimed the lives of 1,075 borough residents, according to the most recent figures available.
The fatalities include 895 Staten Islanders with confirmed coronavirus cases, an increase of one from Sunday’s reported tally.
In addition, 180 deaths were in the “probable” category. That number has remained constant for more than a week.
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 deaths and infections occur. All data is preliminary and subject to change.
Also as of Monday afternoon, there have been 14,471 confirmed coronavirus cases recorded in the borough since the pandemic’s outbreak, the data said.
There had been 14,442 cases reported at the same time on Sunday.
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Throughout the five boroughs, there were 220,483 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Monday afternoon.
The number represented a jump of 217 from Sunday’s total of 220,266.
Citywide, the death toll had reached 23,500 at 1 p.m. Monday. That was a bump up of 15 from the 23,485 fatalities recorded 24 hours earlier.
The fatalities consist of 18,872 individuals who were confirmed coronavirus cases, along with 4,628 others whose deaths were deemed as “probable” COVID-19 cases.
Meanwhile, 20 coronavirus patients were being cared for in the borough on Monday morning.
By contrast, near the height of the pandemic over three months ago on April 8, that number had reached 554.
At Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), nine patients were being treated, said Jillian O’Hara, a spokeswoman.
Richmond University Medical Center was caring for 11 coronavirus patients, Alex Lutz, a spokesman, said. That number is unchanged from Friday.
Five of the Richmond University patients were in the intensive-care unit, the same total for the prior 48 hours, said Lutz.
On a positive note, Richmond University has treated and released 1,253 patients since the pandemic struck.
SIUH’s total was not immediately available.
With respect to testing, the data show 3,039 of every 100,000 Staten Islanders 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, 3,447 residents per 100,000 have tested positive. The Bronx has had 49,369 confirmed cases.
Queens has the third highest rate of confirmed coronavirus cases in the city, with 2,937 residents per 100,000 testing positive. There have been 66,932 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 – 2,371.
Brooklyn’s 61,250 cases are the second most among the five boroughs, behind Queens.
Manhattan has the lowest infection rate in the city with 1,739 per 100,000 residents testing positive. \
There have been 28,325 positive cases in Manhattan, the data said.