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 one more person is listed as "recovering," increasing the number of active cases by three, to 13. There are six fewer people in mandatory quarantine, but the number in precautionary quarantine remains the same. The number of people hospitalized with the virus has not changed, and there have been no more deaths.

As of 3:00 p.m. on August 5, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 506 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 13 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 96 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 26 on precautionary quarantine.
• 456 of the 506 cases are recovering from COVID-10
• 3 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 19,189 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.