COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since Friday, there have been two deaths from COVID-19 and 28 new cases. The number of active cases being reported today is 5 more than on Friday, from which it can be inferred that, since Friday, 21 county residents have recovered from the virus. There are 2 fewer county residents hospitalized today than on Friday, and 2 fewer of those hospitalized are in the ICU. 

A year ago, December 19 was a Sunday, and the CCDOH did not report report numbers. The previous Saturday, December 18, the CCDOH reported 27 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 6,823, and the number of active cases was 265. There were 384 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 18 were hospitalized, and 1 was in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Columbia County at this time last year was 111.