COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been three new cases of COVID-19 and two more recoveries, increasing the number of active cases in the county by one, to 9. No information was provided today about the number of people in mandatory or precautionary quarantine. The number of people hospitalized with the virus remains the same, and there have been no new deaths.

As of 10:00 a.m. on July 26, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 477 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 9 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County.
• 431 of the 477 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 5 of the positive cases are hospitalized, 0 of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 17,177 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.