Monday, August 9, 2021

COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since Friday, there have been fifteen new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is twelve fewer than on Friday, from which it can be inferred that, since Friday, 27 county residents have recovered from the virus. There are twenty fewer county residents in mandatory quarantine today than Friday, but the number hospitalized remains the same. No one is in the ICU, and 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 1.6 percent and a seven-day average of 1.7 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 4.9 percent and the seven-day average is 4.4 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 2 new cases for COVID-19. The total number of cases was 514, and the number of active cases was 11. There were 99 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.

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