COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, nothing has changed, except there are now nine fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine. It has been eighty-three days since Columbia County has had a death from COVID-19.

The following charts review the county's experience with COVID-19 during the month of August. The first chart shows the number of new cases reported each day. For eight days in August, there were no new cases reported. The greatest number of new cases reported was five, which occurred on August 11.

The chart below shows the number of active cases in the county. The month started out with sixteen active cases, and there are now just half that number. The lowest number of active cases was seen on August 24, when there were only four.

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