COVID-19 Update

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

As of 12:00 p.m. on August 2, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 497 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 15 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 78 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 13 on precautionary quarantine.
• 445 of the 497 cases are recovering from COVID-19
• 3 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 18,537 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.