New York will exhaust its supply of COVID vaccines by the end of the day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday said, as the state will go "week to week" to receiving its doses. 

There are about 28,000 doses due to be delivered. Another round of doses is expected next week, the governor said. About 97% of the state's allocated vaccines have been administered so far.

Cuomo urged vaccine distributors to only schedule appointments equal to the number of doses they expect to receive. 

"In truth, we can be doing more than 80,000 doses a day," Cuomo said, adding it is not enough to meet demand and to reach herd immunity.  

The state has identified more than 1,000 sites for vaccinations, with more sites than there is supply at the moment. 

"We are limited by our supply," Cuomo said. "When we get the supply, we distribute it by region." 

Hospitalizations in New York due to the COVID-19 pandemic have fallen by more than 400 patients in recent days as the positive rate of news cases since the holiday season has started to level off. Hospitalizations now stand at 8,846 patients. 

There were 165 deaths in the last 24 hours due to COVID -- considered a lagging indicator.