COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since Friday, there have been 15 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is 10 more than on Friday, from which it can be inferred that, since Friday, 5 county residents have recovered from the virus. There is 1 more county resident hospitalized today than on Friday, but the number in the ICU has not changed. There has not been a death from COVID-19 reported in Columbia County since March 3. 

The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County today of 2.3 percent and a seven-day average of 2.5 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 1.3 percent and the seven-day average is 2.2 percent.

A year ago today, it was Sunday, and the CCDOH did not report COVID numbers, but on the previous day, March 13, there were 11 new cases. The total number of cases was 3,653, and the number of active cases was 62. There were 205 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 10 were hospitalized, and 2 were in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 88.