COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, the only change is a correction in the number of active cases, from 24 to 23, to account for the one person whose recovery was reported yesterday, and the admission of one of the confirmed positive cases to the hospital, increasing the number people now hospitalized with the virus from 10 to 11.

As of 3 p.m. on July 9, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 456 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 23 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County.
• 396 of the 456 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 11 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 13,317 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.