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 six recoveries, reducing the number of active cases by five, to 8. There are seven fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine, but the number in precautionary quarantine remains the same. The number of people hospitalized with the virus is the same as it was yesterday, and there have been no new deaths.

As of 10 a.m. on July 25, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 474 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 8 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 28 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 12 on precautionary quarantine.
• 429 of the 474 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 5 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 17,051 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.