Tuesday, October 20, 2020

COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been five new cases of COVID-19 and three recoveries, increasing the number of active cases by two to 34. Two fewer people are hospitalized with the virus today than yesterday, but two remain in the ICU. Compared with yesterday, there are fifteen fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine, and there are none in precautionary quarantine. There have been no deaths from COVID-19 in Columbia County since Wednesday, October 14. 

With five positives out of 277 test results received, the positive percentage rate for today is 1.8 percent--the same as yesterday. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, is 1.4 percent--that is, 30 positives out of 2,152 test results.

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