COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Sadly, there has been another death from COVID-19 in Columbia County, bringing the total to 39. Since yesterday, there have been three new cases of COVID-19 and three recoveries, so the number of active cases today is 61. There is one more person hospitalized with the virus today than yesterday, but there are five fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine today than yesterday, and none is in precautionary quarantine. 

With three positives out of 331 test results received, the positive percentage rate for today is 0.9 percent. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, is 1.7 percent--that is, 40 positives out of 2,343 test results.