New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will NOT impose new lockdowns

Cases in across the country, meanwhile, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, have shown similar increases.

The data does not count the many home tests that go unreported to health officials.

The uptick, which experts have attributed to a combination of new sub-variants of the infectious Omicron variant and recently loosened restrictions, comes as an about-face from a recent downward trend of cases seen over the past two and a half months, that spurred the state and city to lift mandates.

Daily cases in the Big Apple have suddenly sparked from around 600 per day to 2,185 per day – an increase of more than 350 percent – Department of Health data updated April 15 shows

State cases, meanwhile, have risen by a marked 600 percent since March, government statistics reveal, from 1,091 to 6,889 as of April 17.

School mandates for children under 5, meanwhile, have remained, after Adams ordered they stay in response to the rising infection rates.

Hochul, who is running as the Democratic Party nominee in the upcoming New York primary and general elections after stepping in for disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo last summer, lifted long-held indoor mask mandate implemented by the state in February.