The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. The number of new cases is back to the double digits. Since yesterday, there have been 10 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, 8 county residents have recovered from COVID-19. There are 2 more county residents hospitalized with virus today than yesterday, but the number in the ICU remains the same. There has not been a death from COVID-19 reported in Columbia County since yesterday, when there were 2.
The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County of 0.7 percent and a seven-day average of 3.2 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 2.4 percent and the seven-day average is 3.1 percent.
A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 8 new cases of COVID-19 and 1 death. The total number of cases was 3,587, and the number of active cases was 74. There were 227 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 10 were hospitalized, and 3 were in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 88.
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