COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been 7 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is 1 fewer than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that, since yesterday, 8 county residents have recovered from the virus. The number of county residents hospitalized with the virus today is the same as yesterday, and as yesterday no one is in the ICU. 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 2.4 percent and the seven-day average is 3.1 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 2.8 percent and the seven-day average is 2.5 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 21 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 3,712, and the number of active cases was 90. There were 250 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 9 were hospitalized, and 3 were in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 89.