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“The micro-cluster zones are down all across the state, he said. You look at where they where Erie County was: 7.8. They’re down to 5.1. So you see a drop in both the Orange and the Yellow zones. Given the progress they’ve made, the restrictions are lifted in those zones.”
Cuomo said the lifting of restrictions is due, in some part, to the way the state rebounded in the week after what he called the “holiday surge” from Thanksgiving through the New Year.
“I think at this point,” Cuomo said, “it’s safe to say the holiday surge was anticipated. The holiday surge did happen. But the holiday surge is over. If you look at the numbers over the past week, you see positivity [rates] on the decline. Our high point was 7.9%. We’re down to 5.6%.”