New York in the last 24 hours confirmed 834 new cases of the coronavirus, a positive rate of 1.5 percent out of more than 50,000 test results, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday. 

The positive rate, while still lower than many parts of the United States, is still higher than the rate of less than 1 percent positive rate in the last several weeks in New York.

Cuomo, in a conference call with reporters, pointed to "clusters" of cases in Brooklyn as well as Orange and Rockland counties. There are also cases that have been found in parts of the Southern Tier region of the state linked back to a pub and a nursing home.

Governor Cuomo announced the 10 zip codes that are seeing major clusters of COVID-19 cases. These top 10 zip codes represent 2.9% of the state's population and 25% of the cases.

The zip codes are:

  • Rockland County (10977) with a positive infection rate of 30%
  • Rockland (10952) with a positive infection rate of 20%
  • Orange County (10950) with a positive infection rate of 20%
  • Rockland (10901) with a positive infection rate of 18%
  • Kings County (11219) with a positive infection rate of 17%
  • Kings (11210) with a positive infection rate of 11%
  • Broome County (13905) with a positive infection rate of 10%
  • Kings (11204) with a positive infection rate of 9%
  • Kings (11230) with a positive infection rate of 9%
  • Queens (11367) with a positive infection rate of 6%

State officials plan to target those areas in an effort to reduce the spread in those areas. The governor said he is highly suggesting that both public and private schools in these areas request rapid testing machines. These machines have a 15-minute turnaround, and the state will be making 200 of them available to these districts.

At the same time, Cuomo once again urged local officials to take a firmer hand with local enforcement and compliance with mask wearing and social distancing. 

"I understand when you do compliance, it can be unpopular. But when you don't do compliance ... people are tired of wearing masks, they're tired of socially distancing, except the virus isn't tired," he said.