COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been 8 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is 2 more than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that, since yesterday, 6 county residents have recovered from the virus. The number of county residents hospitalized and in the ICU remains the same as yesterday. 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 of 2.7 percent and a seven-day average of 2.9 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 4.5 percent and the seven-day average is 3.4 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 22 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 3,834, and the number of active cases was 85. There were 215 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 89.