COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been five new cases of COVID-19 and four recoveries, increasing the number of active cases by one, to 15. There are four fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine. The number in precautionary quarantine remains the same, as does the number of people hospitalized with the virus. There have been no new deaths.

As of 3:00 p.m. on July 31, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 491 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 15 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 105 residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 11 on precautionary quarantine.
• 439 of the 491 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 3 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 18,202 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.

This is the second day in July the CCDOH has reported five new cases, the other day being this past Tuesday, July 28. In July, there have been nine days when the CCDOH reported no new cases at all.

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