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. This is the third consecutive day that there have been no new cases. There have also been no new recoveries. The number of active cases remains the same, but today three more of the active cases are in the hospital--that is, 10 out of 14 active cases are hospitalized. The number of county residents in mandatory quarantine has been reduced by ten, the number in precautionary quarantine has been reduced by two. There have been no more deaths.

As of 3:00 p.m. on July 16, 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 33 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 16 on precautionary quarantine.
• 412 of the 463 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 10 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 14,875 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.