Deaths dropped sharply in New York and New Jersey.

The governors of New York and New Jersey announced sharp drops in each state’s reported death toll on Sunday.

Governor Cuomo said that 367 people in New York had been killed by the virus. The last time fewer than 375 deaths were reported in a single day in the state was March 31, when the single-day toll was 332.

In total, 16,966 people in New York have been killed by the virus.

The number of deaths reported Sunday was “horrific,” regardless of the overall drop, Mr. Cuomo said.

“There is no relative context to death,” he said. “Death is death.”

The governor said that 5,902 more people had tested positive for the virus and that 1,087 new coronavirus patients were hospitalized in New York on April 25. That represented a decrease of 685 patients from the previous day, bringing the hospitalization figure for the state to 12,839.

Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey said on Twitter that 75 more people had died in the state, a steep drop from the 249 deaths announced the previous day and the lowest single-day toll in New Jersey since April 5. The state has now lost 5,938 people to the virus.

Mr. Murphy said that 3,730 new cases of the virus were reported, for a total of 109,038 cases in the state.