STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Two more Staten Island residents have succumbed to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, while 35 new confirmed cases of the disease were reported here, city Health Department data show.
As of 1:30 p.m. Monday, the coronavirus is believed to have claimed the lives of 1,024 borough residents, according to the most recent figures published.
That total was 1,022 on Sunday.
The fatalities include 846 Staten Islanders with confirmed coronavirus cases, an uptick of two from Sunday afternoon.
In addition, 178 deaths were in the “probable” category, the same as 24 hours earlier.
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.
Also as of Monday afternoon, there have been 13,726 confirmed coronavirus cases in the borough since the pandemic’s outbreak, the data said.
That total had been 13,691 cases at the same time on Sunday.
The rise in new cases between Sunday and Monday was the highest in a 24-hour period in more than a week, since June 5 into June 6. At that time, there was an increase of 41 cases to 13,558 from 13,517.
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Citywide, there were 207,049 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Monday afternoon.
The number represented a jump of 443 from Sunday’s tally of 206,606.
Across the five boroughs, the death toll had reached 22,124 on Monday afternoon, a bump up of 21 from the 22,103 fatalities recorded 24 hours earlier.
The fatalities consist of 17,433 individuals who were confirmed coronavirus cases, along with 4,691 others whose deaths were deemed as “probable” COVID-19 cases.
A large majority of the deaths in confirmed coronavirus cases which were investigated by the city thus far have occurred in patients with underlying medical issues, said the Health Department.
Underlying conditions include diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, kidney disease and gastro-intestinal/liver disease, said the Health Department.
On a positive note, a total of 3,290 coronavirus patients have been treated at and released from the borough’s two hospital systems since the pandemic’s outbreak.
Staten Island University Hospital’s (SIUH) two campuses have discharged 2,118 patients as of Monday, said Jillian O’Hara, a spokeswoman.
Richmond University Medical Center has treated and released 1,172 patients, Alex Lutz, a spokesman, said.
Meanwhile, the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients in the borough rose by one.
On Monday morning, 55 patients were being cared for on Staten Island.
The total is just one-tenth of the tally from two months ago when in-patient numbers peaked.
On April 8, 554 Islanders were hospitalized with the coronavirus.
At SIUH, 36 patients were being treated Monday morning, the same number as 24 hours earlier, said O’Hara. No coronavirus patients are in the Prince’s Bay facility, she said.
Richmond University Medical Center was caring for 19 coronavirus patients as of Monday morning, up one from Sunday, Lutz said.
With respect to testing, the data show 2,883 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 is 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 for weeks.
In that borough, 3,259 residents per 100,000 have tested positive. The Bronx has had 46,671 cases.
Queens has the third highest rate of confirmed coronavirus cases in the city, with 2,772 residents per 100,000 testing positive. There have been 63,176 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 – 2,222.
Brooklyn’s 57,382 cases are the second most among the five boroughs.
Manhattan has the lowest infection rate in the city with 1,595 per 100,000 residents testing positive.
There have been 25,983 positive cases in Manhattan, the data said.