COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been no new cases of COVID-19 and there have been two recoveries, reducing the number of active cases in the county by two, to 14. There are six fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine today than there were yesterday, and six fewer on precautionary quarantine. Two people have left the hospital, and there have been no new deaths. All good news!

As of 3:00 p.m. on July 15, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 463 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 14 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 43 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 18 on precautionary quarantine.
• 412 of the 463 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 7 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 14,662 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.