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Another 783 people across New York died from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday, as the state’s “horrific” death tally climbed to 8,627.

The single-day total was up from 777 the day before, but short of the record 799 reported Wednesday.

“The number is stabilizing, but it’s stabilizing at an horrific rate,” the governor said. “These are just incredible numbers, depicting incredible loss and pain.”

Meanwhile, there were nearly 400 deaths in the Big Apple since Friday morning, for a total tally of 5,463, city data revealed. The number of infected in the city grew to 96,522, with over 3,000 new cases, the data show.

Cuomo said other numbers are also showing positive trends, including a record-low 56 ICU admissions on Friday and declines in hospitalization rates and intubation rates.

“The good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten,” Cuomo said. “All the numbers are on a downward slope.”

That still means that more people are getting infected and hospitalized, he said, but the data is plateauing, as some of the models used to drive policy predicted.

The spread from the city outward has also stabilized, the governor said, with about 64 percent of all cases in the city, 22 percent on Long Island, 8 percent in Westchester and Rockland counties and 6 percent upstate.

The governor refuted suggestions that he overreacted last month when he called for more federal aid and pushed to create new hospital beds at places like the Javits Center that have gone underutilized.

He noted that epidemiological models predicted up to 136,000 people could have been infected by now.

“All of the projection models have said the same thing,” he said. “All the experts had higher projection numbers than we actually experienced.” The caveat with the models was that the growth rate of infections and deaths depended on how government acted and how citizens responded to efforts like shutting schools and businesses.

New York’s data is akin to a halftime score, the governor said.

“We don’t know if there’s going to be a second wave or not, all of these things are yet to come.”