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According to the county Department of Health, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Dutchess has risen to 418, up from 292 earlier this week.
The number continues to climb, though it is a far cry from the peak of the outbreak in late April, when the county was dealing with 1,860 active cases at one point.
There have been 6,003 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the outbreak began in early March out of 245,044 tests administered in Dutchess. During the pandemic, there have been 173 virus-related deaths.
Twenty-three patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 12 last week.
In the past week, the seven-day rolling infection rate in Dutchess has risen from 1.3 percent to 2.4 percent, while the two-week average has climbed from 1.2 percent to 1.9 percent.
A breakdown of active COVID-19 cases in Dutchess County as of Friday, Nov. 13:
- Fishkill: 40;
- East Fishkill: 27;
- Poughkeepsie: 25;
- Poughkeepsie City: 18;
- Wappinger: 15;
- Dover: 11;
- Beacon City: 8;
- Hyde Park:7;
- Beekman: 7;
- LaGrange: 7.
There are less than five COVID-19 cases in:
- Amenia;
- Clinton;
- Dover;
- Fishkill Village;
- Milan;
- Millbrook Village;
- Millerton Village;
- North East;
- Pawling;
- Pawling Village;
- Pine Plains;
- Pleasant Valley;
- Red Hook;
- Red Hook Village;
- Rhinebeck;
- Rhinebeck Village;
- Stanford;
- Tivoli Village;
- Union Vale;
- Wappingers Falls Village;
- Washington.
There are currently 234 other active cases that are pending address confirmation.
Since the pandemic began, New York has administered 16,231,193 COVID-19 tests, with 545,762 testing positive. A total of 26,055 New Yorkers have died since mid-March.
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