COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been four new cases of COVID-19 and three recoveries, increasing the number of active cases by one, to 16. The number of county residents in mandatory quarantine has decreased by eleven, and the number in precautionary quarantine has increased by one. The number of people hospitalized with the virus remains the same, and there have been no new deaths.

As of 1:30 p.m. on August 1, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 495 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 16 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 94 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 12 on precautionary quarantine.
• 442 of the 495 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 3 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 18,464 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.