COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. There has been another death from COVID-19, bringing the total deaths to 150. Since Friday, there have been 31 new cases of the disease. The number of active cases being reported today is 2 fewer than on Friday, from which it can be inferred that, since Friday, 32 county residents have recovered from the virus. There is 1 fewer county resident hospitalized with COVID-19 today than on Friday, but the number in the ICU remains the same.

A year ago, July 25 was a Sunday, and the CCDOH did not report COVID numbers. On the previous Friday, July 23, the CCDOH reported 5 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 4,303, and the number of active cases was 15. There were 24 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 1 was hospitalized, and 0 were in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Columbia County at this time last year was 96.