COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Sadly, since yesterday, there has been another death from COVID-19. Also since yesterday, there have been 11 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is 5 more than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that, since yesterday, 5 county residents have recovered from the virus. There is one fewer county resident hospitalized today than yesterday; none is in the ICU.   

The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County yesterday of 4.6 percent and a seven-day average of 3.3 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 4.9 percent and the seven-day average is 3.6 percent.

A year ago today, there was also a death from COVID-19 reported by the CCDOH, bringing the total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at that time to 39. The CCDOH also reported 3 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 663, and the number of active cases was 61. There were 94 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 19 were hospitalized, and 1 was in the ICU.