New York's coronavirus infection rate out of thousands of test results on Saturday found an infection rate largely remaining flat at 1 percent. 

But there are some differences regionally, as the Capital Region showed a slightly higher infection rate of 2 percent, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced on Saturday.

The higher rate in the Capital Region is in Rensselaer County, which had 23 new cases in the last day. Some of these cases may be traced back to people who tested positive after traveling back to New York from Georgia. 

Those people who tested positive are in isolation, and county and state officials are conducting contact tracing. 

Georgia is one of the nearly two dozen states New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have placed a 14-day quarantine on for those who travel from those states. 

Overall, five people died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. Hospitalizations due to the virus are back above 800 to 801 patients, Cuomo's office said. 

The results of 62,418 tests found 677 positive cases. 

"New York State continues to move forward combatting COVID-19 with its phased, data-driven reopening in the face of alarming increases in cases throughout the country and in the nationwide death rate," Cuomo said. 

"What's happening elsewhere in the United States is very concerning to us here at home, and our ability to avoid the same fate rests on New Yorkers' willingness to wear masks, socially distance and wash their hands, and local governments' willingness to enforce state guidelines. Today's numbers remain low and stable, but it is up to us to keep it that way. Being New York Tough isn't easy, but New Yorkers have shown the nation that we can effectively fight the virus when we all come together, and I urge them not to give up any ground now."