COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there has been one new positive case of COVID-19. Eight more people have recovered from the virus, and the number of active cases has been reduced by seven. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 remains unchanged since yesterday, as does the number of deaths.

As of 3:30 p.m. on June 4, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 34 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has received a total of 5,458 PCR [diagnostic] test results with 394 confirmed cases.
• There are 108 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County.
• There are 49 additional residents on mandatory quarantine and 12 residents on precautionary quarantine.
• 252 of the 394 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 18 of the positive cases are hospitalized, 1 of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We've received 1,482 antibody results, of which 141 were positive.

In his press briefing this morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo shared the chart below, showing the test results in four regions of the state--Long Island, New York City, Western New York, and the Capital Region--over the past six weeks.

 

Currently, in the Capital Region (that's us), 1 percent of the people being tested for COVID-19 are testing positive. Six weeks ago, it was 12 percent. Today, the Columbia County Department of Health reported one new case of COVID-19. Six weeks ago, on April 23, there were eight.

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