The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. There has been another death from COVID-19 in Columbia County, bringing the total number of deaths from the virus to 40. Since yesterday, there have been thirteen new cases of COVID-19 and two recoveries, increasing the number of active cases by ten to 71. The number of people hospitalized with the virus remains the same as yesterday, but today two more are in the ICU. The number of county residents in mandatory quarantine has increased by 41 since yesterday, but no one is in precautionary quarantine.

With thirteen positives out of 592 test results received, the positive percentage rate for today is 2.2 percent. The seven day rolling average, is 1.8 percent–that is, 48 positives out of 2,658 test results.