COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there has been another death from COVID-19 in the county and 14 new cases. The number of active cases being reported today is 3 more than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that, since yesterday, 11 county residents have recovered from the virus. The number of county residents hospitalized with COVID-19 and in the ICU remains the same today as yesterday. So far in the month of August, 3 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported. The previous two were on on August 2 and August 3.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 14 new cases of COVID-19, the same as today. The total number of cases was 4,409, and the number of active cases was 37. There were 32 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 1 was hospitalized, and 1 was in the ICU. The total number of deaths in Columbia County attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 96.