COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been fourteen new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is ten more than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that since yesterday four county residents more recovered from the virus. There are three fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine today than there were yesterday, and there is one fewer hospitalized, but the one person hospitalized is in the ICU. There has not been a death from COVID-19 in Columbia County since June 24.

The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County yesterday of 2.6 percent and a seven-day average of 1.6 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 5.9 percent and the seven-day average is 4.4.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported no new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 514, and the number of active cases was 9. There were 97 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 3 were hospitalized, and none was in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 37.