Majority of new COVID-19 hospitalisations in New York are people who stayed at home: Data

About 66 per cent of the new coronavirus infection cases requiring hospitalisations in New York were people who were predominantly staying home, a trend described by the state's Governor, Andrew Cuomo as shocking.

Cuomo outlined on Wednesday the results of new hospitalisation data that was collected from hospitals in a new targeted effort to further reduce the number of new hospitalizations per day.

The state received 1,269 survey responses from 113 hospitals over three days and found that the majority of individuals hospitalized were not working or traveling, predominately located in downstate New York and were predominately minorities, older individuals, non-essential employees and those that were staying at home.

What we've done over the past few days is we asked hospitals, look at just those new cases who are coming in Where are those people coming from and what can we learn from those people to further target and refine our strategy, Cuomo said.

He said new hospitalisation cases .