The number of COVID-19 cases in Chautauqua County crossed the 2,000 mark over the weekend, according to statistics released Monday.

The county Health Department reported 153 new cases from between Friday and Sunday. To date. 2,036 cases have been recorded in the county.

The number of people with the virus in the hospital also increased, from 15 last reported Friday to 17 on Monday. The number of active cases, meanwhile, has hit 326.

The county surpassed the 1,000 mark around Oct. 27.

Of the new cases, 47 involve people living in the Jamestown zip code; 19 are in the Dunkirk zip code; 17 in Fredonia; seven in Silver Creek; and eight each in Falconer and Clymer. Several communities also have a handful of new cases.

Jamestown’s 82 active cases account for 25% of the county’s active case total. Fredonia meanwhile has 37 and Dunkirk has 34 active cases as well.

Two travelers are quarantined, the department said. Meanwhile, 1,387 contacts have also been given quarantine orders.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States’ top infectious disease expert, joined New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the latter’s press briefing Monday morning via teleconference. Fauci said that a rise in hospitalization rates could continue to mid-January.

“You’d expect the effect of the Thanksgiving surge would probably be another week or a week and a half from now,” Fauci said, noting that after an uptick in cases, it can take over two weeks for hospitalizations to increase.

During the briefing, hospitals across New York were ordered Monday to add 25% more beds to handle growing numbers of coronavirus patients. Cuomo, meanwhile, warned he would curtail indoor dining if hospitalizations keep rising.

Over 4,600 COVID-19 patients are now hospitalized statewide, double the amount reported Nov. 18. Cuomo said the state isn’t yet at a “critical” level of COVID-19 hospitalizations, but that the continued growth is worrying.

“I think that’s the ultimate bottom line: Can your hospitals handle the increase until you start to see a reduction from the vaccinations?” Cuomo said.

Worried about potential hospital staffing shortages, Cuomo urged retired healthcare workers to volunteer to help provide as many as 20,000 extra nurses and doctors.

Cuomo said that he’ll shut down schools, nonessential businesses and all restaurant table service in regions that are on track to hit 90% of hospital capacity within three weeks, based on a seven-day average.

Meanwhile, Cuomo said he’d wait five days to see whether hospitalizations keep rising before he might rein in indoor dining — potentially banning it in New York City and limiting it elsewhere to 25% capacity, down from 50%.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that indoor dining is high-risk “when distancing is not maintained and consistent use of face masks is not possible.”

New York recorded over 64,000 new coronavirus cases over the past seven days, up 80% from two weeks ago.

State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, who represents the 57th Senate district in the state’s legislative chamber, released a statement Monday afternoon announcing that he and his wife Kelly are among those new cases, testing positive for the coronavirus on Sunday.

“As an elected official whose schedule often involves public interaction, I have made it a point to get tested for COVID-19 as a precautionary measure,” he said. “While, thankfully, we both feel well, we are following the recommendations of our doctors and will be self-isolating at home for 10 days. As we all know, COVID-19 is a very contagious and serious virus, especially because many carriers are asymptomatic.

Borrello had just held a press conference in Little Valley on Friday announcing broadband extension for areas within the 57th Senate district. He said that “the risky of any inadvertent transmission of other is very low, as I was masked and followed social-distancing guidelines.”

“These are prevention protocols that I have followed and that I urge all New Yorkers to observe, for their own benefit and the safety of others,” he said.