The 21,908 new cases reported on Saturday was a slight increase over the 21,027 cases reported the day before. Both were daily records for the state…

State officials said the test positivity rate was 7.53 percent, up from about 2.6 percent on Sept. 22. Officials said that 3,909 people were hospitalized on Friday, a net increase of 70 patients.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Saturday that 40 new pop-up vaccination sites would open across the state, as part of an effort to get New Yorkers fully vaccinated and boosted, which epidemiologists consider critical to protecting people from severe disease and death.