Thursday, January 28, 2021

COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been 56 new cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. The number of active cases now being reported is sixteen more than yesterday, suggesting that forty more people are now considered to be recovering. There are 31 more county residents in mandatory quarantine today than yesterday. The number hospitalized with the virus has increased by one, and the number in the ICU has increased by two. These has not been another death from COVID-19 in Columbia County since Tuesday.    

The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County yesterday of 6.3 percent and a seven-day average of 6.9 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region as a whole is 5.3 percent and the seven-day average is 6.0 percent.

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