COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been five new cases of COVID-19, and one more person has recovered. The CCDOH reports the number of active cases is 35, five more than yesterday, but that should probably be 34, since there has been a recovery. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 remains the same, as does the number of deaths.

As of 3 p.m. on June 10, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has received a total of 6,470 PCR [diagnostic] test results with 407 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 35 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County.  
• 336 of the 407 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 11 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We've received 1,677 antibody results, of which 154 were positive

The New York State dashboard shows Columbia County having the highest percentage of new positive cases of the eight counties in the Capital Region.

The virus is still with us. Let's be careful out there.