He said he has mild symptoms and will be quarantining for five days.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 825,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
About 62% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than 8,773 people are hospitalized in New York state with COVID-19 -- the highest number since January 2021, according to state health officials.
Roughly 1,518 people were admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours, and there are 1,133 patients in ICU beds, the health department said.
One of the largest testing companies in the country said the jump in COVID-19 tests has led to an increase in time for results.
Quest Diagnostics told ABC News their turnaround time for results has now stretched to two to three days on average.
Last week, the company said it took a day, on average, to get results.
On Wednesday, Quest told ABC News they were deploying their logistics network, such as its national courier and air fleet, to move specimens around to where there is less inundation and help balance out volume across their roughly two dozen labs.
However, the increase in omicron cases and the busy holiday season led to delays.
Other labs are also experiencing long wait times for results, including CityMD, which said it can take patients up to seven days to get their results.
-ABC News' Sasha Pezenik
New York state has once again broken its single-day COVID-19 case record.
There were 85,476 new cases reported Saturday, according to the governor's office.
The number of COVID-19 tests administered also increased by over 44,000 in the last 24 hours.
The state's seven-day positivity rate is nearly 20%.
On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced new measures to target the state's winter COVID-19 surge, including opening more state-run testing sites, distributing rapid tests to schools and increasing vaccination and booster rates among children and nursing home residents.
A report published on Friday by the U.K. Health Security Agency found that people who were infected with the omicron variant had a reduced risk of requiring hospitalization, as compared to people who were infected with the delta variant.
The risk of hospital admissions among those with omicron was about half of that for delta, researchers found.
Individuals who had a booster dose were also found to have a "substantial reduction" in the risk of hospitalization, compared to those who are unvaccinated.
Researchers noted that these lower risks do not necessarily correlate to a reduced hospital burden during a COVID-19 surge, particularly given the higher growth rate and immune evasion seen with omicron.
Preliminary analyses also estimated a lower risk of hospitalization among omicron cases in school-aged children 5 to 17 years old, compared to delta cases in the same age group.
-ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos
