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Covid-19: Here's Brand-New Breakdown Of Dutchess County Cases By Community

There were 15 new COVID-19-related deaths reported in Dutchess County over the week, as the number of active cases being monitored continues to drop.

The Dutchess County COVID-19 map.

The Dutchess County COVID-19 map.

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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Dutchess has reached 19,512, with 1,271 active as of Friday, Feb. 5, down from 1,541 a week ago.

In Dutchess, the new fatalities bring the overall death toll to 372 since the pandemic began in March last year.

The seven-day rolling positive infection rate in Dutchess down to 5.26 percent after it was upwards of 7 percent last week.

Twenty COVID-19 patients have been discharged from Dutchess County hospitals, leaving a total of 132 being treated for the virus in Dutchess, down from 172 last week.

Health officials said that 17,869 in Dutchess have contracted COVID-19 and recovered.

A breakdown of active COVID-19 cases in Dutchess County as of Feb. 5:

  • Poughkeepsie: 202;
  • Poughkeepsie City: 201;
  • East Fishkill: 161;
  • Wappinger: 111;
  • Fishkill: 100;
  • Hyde Park: 79;
  • Beekman: 64;
  • LaGrange: 47;
  • Beacon City: 47;
  • Pleasant Valley: 35;
  • Dover: 34;
  • Rhinebeck: 28;
  • Pawling: 20;
  • Union Vale: 20;
  • Wappingers Falls Village: 19;
  • Red Hook: 15;
  • Pawling Village: 14;
  • Clinton: 13;
  • Stanford: 11;
  • Washington: 11;
  • Amenia: 10;
  • Millerton Village: 6.

There are less than five active COVID-19 cases in Fishkill Village, Milan, Millbrook Village, North East, Pine Plains, Red Hook Village, Rhinebeck Village, Stanford, and Tivoli Village.

There were 203,627 COVID-19 tests administered in New York on Feb. 4, according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, resulting in 8,777 new cases for a 4.31 percent positive infection rate, down slightly from earlier in the week.

The infection rate is the lowest the state has recorded since November.

Thirty COVID-19 patients were discharged from New York hospitals, as the total dropped to 7,937 still being treated statewide. There are 1,516 patients in ICU, and 1,000 are currently intubated. There were 153 new COVID-19-related deaths reported in the past 24 hours.

Statewide, a total of 1,449,495 positive COVID-19 cases have been confirmed out of 32.98 million tests that have been administered. There have been a total of 35,920 virus-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

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