New York governor Andrew Cuomo says the state has lost 10,056 people to the coronavirus as of Monday. However while New York deaths surpassed 10,000 mark, the one-day increase was about 7%, the lowest in some time.

The governor contrasted Covid-19 deaths against 9/11 deaths. That said, this is the first time the daily death toll has fallen under 700 in several days.

"This is 671 people who passed away on Easter Sunday," Cuomo says, adding that he's Catholic and to have this happen over the weekend is really, really especially tragic.”

Cuomo has introduced a new daily statistic in his briefings, of news COVID-19 hospital admissions per day. Previously he was showing net change in hospitalizations -- which counts new admissions but also discharges and presumably the deceased which has been a much lower and less dramatic number. 

The new data point shows there were 1,958 new COVID-19 hospital admissions on Sunday, and has been running about 2,000 patients per day. Still, it's down from what increasingly seems to have been the peak on April 2, when 3,413 were hospitalized.

He said It's unclear exactly how the state can implement widespread testing and that since the beginning of the outbreak, testing in the U.S. has been a huge challenge.

SOURCE: Bloomberg