Thursday, July 1, 2021

COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, and for the third day in a row, there have been no new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is the same as yesterday, and there are three fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine today than yesterday. No one is hospitalized or in the ICU, and there has not been a death from COVID-19 reported in Columbia County since Thursday, June 24.

The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County yesterday of 0.0 percent and a seven-day average of 1.1 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is o.2 percent and the seven-day average is 0.3 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 4 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 445, and the number of active cases was 25. There were 7 county residents hospitalized with the virus, and none was in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 37.

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