Chautauqua County has reported over 1,000 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 13 days.

Since March, the county has recorded 4,097 cases of the coronavirus — with 1,090 since Dec. 22.

The county Health Department announced on Monday that 418 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed from Dec. 31 to Jan. 2. Of the new cases, 120 were reported in Jamestown, 93 were reported in Dunkirk, 48 were reported in Fredonia and 22 were reported in Lakewood. The county also announced that 50 individuals have been hospitalized with the virus.

The county now has 604 active cases, with 171 of those being in the Jamestown zip code, 113 being in the Dunkirk zip code, 62 in the Fredonia zip code and 51 in the Frewsburg zip code.

Four more fatalities were also reported on Monday — 36 total since the beginning of the pandemic. Based on previous data, three of the individuals were in their 80s and one was in their 70s.

There are also 1,935 individuals locally under quarantine orders.

In neighboring Cattaraugus County, three more residents had died of COVID-19-related complications, marking 53 deaths since March. An 89-year-old woman and two men, 70 and 84-years-old, each passed away after developing respiratory issues. The county had 477 active cases as of Sunday night with 42 hospitalized.

The rise in cases come on the heals of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announcing during a Monday telephone call with reports that the state had detected its first known case of a new variant of COVID-19 in Saratoga County.

Cuomo said a man in his 60s tested positive for the COVID-19 variant, which is more contagious than its previous variants. The governor said the man, who works at a jewelry store in Saratoga Springs, had COVID-19 symptoms but is “on the mend.”

Three other people linked to the jewelry store have tested positive for COVID-19, but Cuomo said it’s unknown if they have the variant.

The governor said the Wadsworth laboratory can test for the variant in 40 hours and has run about 5,000 tests so far for the variant, which he warned could lead to even more infections and hospitalizations as amid a holiday season surge.

“I think it is must more widespread than people known,” Cuomo said.

During an earlier press conference, the governor also claimed that the “Surge and Flex” focus on hospital capacity and load management has been working.

“They’re adding capacity, they’re closing down units they don’t need and we’re watching pretty closely the hospital capacity because that is the red line,” he said.

With regard to vaccinations, the governor also announced that the state will help to expedite the nursing home vaccination program, which previously had been federally organized.

“That has not been going as quickly as we’d like so New York state will step in,” Cuomo said, noting that only 47% of the state’s 611 nursing home facilities had received their first dosages of the virus. With the state’s help, 85% of those facilities will have been vaccinated by the end of the week, with the remaining 15% expected in the next two weeks.