(Bloomberg) --

New York suffered another day of record fatalities from the coronavirus outbreak, reporting 779 additional deaths even as hospitalizations declined.

“The number of deaths will continue to rise as those hospitalized for a period of time pass away,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday at his daily virus briefing.

The state has lost more than 1,500 people to the virus in the last two days, for a total of almost 6,300.

Despite the rising death toll, Cuomo said the state’s social-distancing rules and other measures were working.

“It is flattening the curve, and we see that again today so far,” he said, adding that “we have to remain diligent, we have to remain disciplined going forward.”“We are by no means out of the woods,” he said.

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