NYC Counts 20K New Coronavirus Cases In 5 Days, Data Shows

NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Confirmed new coronavirus cases in New York City skyrocketed by roughly 20,000 in a five-day span, city data shows.

Newly-released city health department numbersshow the outbreak's impact on neighborhoods between March 31 and April.

The zip code covering Corona, Queens still has the most confirmed cases — 1,337 — of anywhere in the city as of Saturday and the biggest jump in cases. It had 390 more confirmed cases than March 31 when, with grim irony, Corona became the confirmed coronavirus epicenter in the city.

The next-biggest increase in positive cases was Borough Park, home of the 11219 zip code. It had 317 new cases and now ranks as the second-largest outbreak definitively tied to a sole city neighborhood in the city.

Overall, the city counted 21,499 new positive cases in five days.

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And those city health department numbers running from March 31 to April 4 are already out of date.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said amid signs the state's outbreak is reaching its peak, the city added 4,245 new cases in a single day. There are 67,551 cases in the city, according to state data.

The state's numbers don't break down the impact on individual city neighborhoods.

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