COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been sixteen new cases of COVID-19 and fifteen recoveries, increasing the number of active cases by one to 92. There are two fewer people hospitalized with the virus, but the number in the ICU remains the same. Since yesterday, there has not been another death from COVID-19 in Columbia County.

With sixteen positives out of 349 test results received, the positive percentage rate for today is 4.6 percent. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, is 2.8 percent--that is, 79 positives out of 2,806 test results.