COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been three new cases of COVID-19 and two recoveries, increasing the total number of active cases by one to 35. One more person is hospitalized with the virus today than yesterday, and one fewer person in is the ICU. There are seven fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine than yesterday, and no one is in precautionary quarantine. It has now been a week since there has been a death from COVID-19 in Columbia County.

With three positives out of 296 test results received, the positive percentage rate for today is 1.0 percent. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, is 1.2 percent--that is, 27 positives out of 2,199 test results.