Colleges and universities in New York that see elevated coronavirus cases will move to two weeks of remote learning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said. 

The criteria announced Thursday in a conference call comes as SUNY campuses around New York are already in session with students on campus. A student this week at the University at Albany tested positive this week. 

A school would move to remote learning for two weeks if 100 cases or found or if the number of COVID cases is equal to 5% of the student population.

"We should anticipate clusters" at the campuses, Cuomo said. 

New York overall continues to have a flattened COVID positive rate. The results from about 83,000 COVID tests found a positive rate of 0.9 percent statewide. 

But there is a continued "caution flag" in western New York where the positive rate is at 2%, and the state is sending testing sites to the region that could perform a one-day turnaround. The cases stem from a manufacturing facility in Chautauqua County as well as community spread, state officials said.

"We're focusing on western New York and we're going to continue to focus on it," Cuomo said.