COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there has been one new case of COVID-19 and four more recoveries, reducing the number of active cases by three, to 20. Two fewer people are now hospitalized with COVID-19, and there have been no new deaths.

Today's report from the CCDOH contains information that hasn't been included for a while: the number of people being monitored by contact tracers. This is where the spike is. There are now 66 county residents on mandatory quarantine and 23 on precautionary quarantine.

As of 3 p.m. on July 10, 2020

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 457 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 20 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 66 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 23 are precautionary quarantine.
• 400 of the 457 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 9 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 13,539 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.