West Village Now Near Top New York City COVID Rate: Data Shows

Gus Saltonstall
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WEST VILLAGE, NY — With the city's official COVID-19 status getting upgraded to "medium" on Monday, the West Village now boasts near the top virus rate in the five boroughs.

For the most recent seven-day positivity rate, the 10014 ZIP code checks in at 11.60 percent, according to data from the city.

It is the 12th highest of any ZIP code in NYC.

The highest positivity rate from April 23 to 29 was 16.07 percent in Flushing, Queens.

The West Village isn't the only Lower Manhattan area recording higher than average rates.

ZIP codes in Chelsea, SoHo, East Village, and the Financial District are all within the top 15 highest NYC rates.

Highest COVID-19 Positivity Rates from April 23-29

  1. 11354, Flushing/Murray Hill: 16.07 percent

  2. 11355, Flushing/Murray Hill/Queensboro Hill: 15.07 percent

  3. 10011, Chelsea: 14.44 percent

  4. 11109, Long Island City: 13.92 percent

  5. 11004, Bellerose/Douglaston-Little Neck: 13.57 percent

  6. 11360, Bayside: 12.95 percent

  7. 10013, Hudson Square/Little Italy/SoHo/TriBeCa: 12.75 percent

  8. 11697, Breezy Point: 12.31 percent

  9. 11426, Bellerose: 11.96 percent

  10. 10003, East Village/Greenwich Village: 11.73 percent

  11. 10069, Lincoln Square: 11.65 percent

  12. 10014, West Village: 11.60 percent

  13. 11367, Kew Gardens Hills: 11.41 percent

  14. 10308, Great Kills: 11.27 percent

  15. 10006, Financial District: 11.11 percent

It is not the first time that the West Village has neared the top of the city's COVID rate.

Amid the omicron surge before the beginning of 2022, the 10014 ZIP code posted the highest positivity rate in all five boroughs at 15.09 percent from Dec. 12 to 18.

The case rate in the city now stands at 200 per 100,000 people, health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said Monday.

"As a practical matter, what this means for New Yorkers is that they must exercise even greater caution than they have the last few weeks," Vasan said in a statement.

COVID-19 infections have steadily increased for weeks as an even-more-contagious subvariant of omicron known as BA.2 takes hold in the city.

West Village Now Near Top New York City COVID Rate: Data Shows originally appeared on the West Village Patch