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Dutchess health officials were monitoring 1,177 active COVID-19 cases as of Wednesday, Feb. 24, up from 819 late last week.
According to the Department of Health, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Dutchess has reached 21,769 out of more than 520,000 tests that have been administered countywide.
In the past week, six new virus-related deaths were reported in Dutchess, bringing the total to 404 since the pandemic began last year.
The seven-day rolling positive infection rate in Dutchess up to 4.35 percent after it was up near 7 percent earlier this month.
Dozens of COVID-19 patients have been discharged from Dutchess County hospitals in the past week, leaving a total of 46 being treated for the virus in Dutchess, down from more than 100 last week.
Health officials said that 20,188 in Dutchess have contracted COVID-19 and recovered.
A breakdown of active COVID-19 cases in Dutchess County as of Feb. 24:
- Poughkeepsie: 155;
- Poughkeepsie City: 114;
- East Fishkill: 104;
- Wappinger: 82;
- Fishkill: 77;
- Hyde Park: 62;
- Beekman: 43;
- Pleasant Valley: 40;
- LaGrange: 39;
- Beacon City: 36;
- Wappingers Falls Village: 22;
- Dover: 20;
- Amenia: 16;
- Union Vale: 16;
- Red Hook: 15;
- Pawling: 14;
- Rhinebeck: 12;
- Clinton: 10;
- Stanford: 8;
- Washington: 7;
- Fishkill Village: 7.
There are less than five active COVID-19 cases in Millbrook Village, Millerton Village, North East, Pawling Village, Pine Plains, Red Hook Village, Rhinebeck Village, and Tivoli Village.
Statewide, a total of 1,578,785 positive COVID-19 cases have been confirmed out of more than 36 million tests that have been administered. There have been a total of 37,851 virus-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
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