ALBANY COUNTY — The state’s infection rate for COVID-19 dropped to its lowest since Dec. 1 and the start of the holiday surge, Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters on a phone call Tuesday.

That rate, as a seven-day average, is 4.38 percent.

This puts New York along with a score of other states below the 5-percent threshold that the World Health Organization advised governments to reach, and hold for 14 days, before reopening.

Those numbers are being tracked by Johns Hopkins, which, as of Tuesday evening, showed 32 states over the 5 percent threshold. Wyoming has the lowest rate at 1.08 percent followed by Vermont at 1.71 percent. Mississippi is the state with the highest infection rate at 100 percent.

As of Feb. 8, Albany County had a positivity rate, as a seven-day rolling average, of 3.8 percent, according to the state’s dashboard. The 14-day average was 4.6 percent, and the daily infection rate was 5.7 percent.

Cuomo also told the press on his Tuesday call, “On the vaccinations, we’ve done 2.5 million total doses to date. That means about 10 percent of all New Yorkers have received one dose.”

The two vaccines currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration each require two doses.

Over the weekend, Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease specialist, said that the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “are opposed strongly to using second doses for first doses, that the second doses must be available for Pfizer and Moderna when they were supposed to be available,” Cuomo reported.

 He also said, “The supply will really only increase when and if Johnson & Johnson is approved. The Pfizer, Moderna vaccines are ramping up but the ramp-up is relatively slow.”

The White House has announced another 5-percent increase in allocations, Cuomo said, and the federal government will also administer a million vaccinations nationwide at federally qualified community health centers.

Last week, the federal government announced it would run a program directly giving vaccine doses to pharmacies.

In Albany County, another resident, a woman in her sixties, succumbed to COVID-19 since Monday, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said in a release on Tuesday morning.

This brings the county’s death toll to 335.

As of Tuesday morning, Albany County has had 19,193 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 86 new cases since Monday.

Of the new cases, 52 did not have clear sources of infection identified, 25 had close contact with someone infected with the disease, and nine were healthcare workers or residents of congregate settings.

The five-day average for new daily positives has decreased to 102.6 from 116.4. There are now 945 active cases in the county, down from 991 on Monday.

The number of county residents under mandatory quarantine decreased to 1,765 from 2,006. So far, 58,569 residents have completed quarantine. Of those, 18,248 had tested positive and recovered. That is an increase of 128 recoveries since yesterday.

There were 11 new hospitalizations overnight, and there are now 99 county residents hospitalized from the virus — a net increase of two. There are now 17 patients in intensive-care units, up from 15 on Monday.

Among the state’s 10 regions, the Capital Region continues to have the worst rate of available hospital beds, at 27 percent, and of ICU beds at 16 percent.