COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been ten new cases of COVID-19 and fifteen recoveries, reducing the number of active cases by five to 61. There are two fewer people hospitalized with the virus today than yesterday, but the number in the ICU remains the same. There have been no deaths from COVID-19 in Columbia County since Thursday, November 19.

With ten positives out of 501 test results, the positive percentage rate for today is 2 percent. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, is 2.5 percent--that is, 77 positives out of 3,028 test results.