Health & Fitness
Greenwich Village COVID Rate Nears 20 Percent: A Breakdown
While other NYC ZIP codes are now catching and surpassing the COVID rates seen in Greenwich Village, the local numbers are still rising.
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — As the omicron surge first hit New York City, no ZIP code in the five boroughs had a higher COVID-19 rate than the West Village and its surrounding Lower Manhattan neighborhoods.
For the week of Dec. 12 through 18, three of the five highest NYC ZIP code positive rates were in the West Village and Greenwich Village.
With the city now providing COVID data through Dec. 25, the rest of the city and borough is catching and surpassing the two downtown neighborhoods in positivity rates.
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This does not mean, though, that the rates in the West Village and Greenwich Village aren't still climbing.
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10014 (West Village)
- Case rate: 19.15 percent
- New positives: 504
- Median number of people getting tested a day: 2,632
10012 (Greenwich Village/SoHo)
- Case rate: 16.13 percent
- New positives: 388
- Median number of people getting tested a day: 2,319
10003 (Greenwich Village/East Village)
- Case rate: 17.7 percent
- New positives: 1,146
- Median number of people getting tested a day: 6,675
The average positivity rate for the three ZIP codes during the week was 17.66 percent. In total, 2,038 new people tested positive for the virus.
In comparison, the positivity rate in the West Village from Dec. 12 through 18, when it was the highest in New York City, was 15.09 percent.
The 10003 ZIP code was one of under 30 areas in New York City from Dec. 19 through 25 to see more than 1,000 new people test positive in a single week.
Additionally, the West Village might not be the highest case rate in the city anymore, but it is still near the high end seen in Manhattan.
What has changed most clearly since last week is that the highest positivity rates are no longer in Lower Manhattan. Upper Manhattan, in particular Harlem, is now home to a hotbed of the highest positivity rates in the borough.
Residents in the Bronx and Queens have also passed Manhattan residents for the highest positivity rates in NYC.
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