COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there are two new positive cases and no new recoveries, increasing the number of active cases in the county by two, to 22. The number of people in mandatory quarantine has decreased since yesterday, from 66 to 45. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has not changed since yesterday nor has the number of deaths.

As of 12 p.m. on July 11, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 459 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 22 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 45 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 23 on precautionary quarantine.
• 400 of the 459 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 9 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 13,724 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.