COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health was released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there has been another death from COVID-19. There were no new positive cases. In fact, today's number of positive cases is one less than yesterday's because one of the cases reported yesterday was someone from another county. There is one fewer person hospitalized, and test results for another 173 Columbia County residents have been received.

As of 3 p.m. on May 20, 2020:

• Unfortunately, Columbia County has had a 29th resident pass away from COVID-19.
• 353 positive cases of COVID-19 (One of our cases from yesterday actually belonged to another county.)
• 165 of the 353 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 18 of the positive cases are hospitalized, 1 of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 3,526 test results completed for Columbia County residents
• 156 residents are under mandatory quarantine and 4 under precautionary quarantine