According to the county Department of Health, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Dutchess has dropped to 168, down from 173 earlier in the week.
The number 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 5,508 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the outbreak began in early March out of 219,039 tests administered in Dutchess. During the pandemic, there have been 165 virus-related deaths. Eleven patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19.
A breakdown of active COVID-19 cases in Dutchess County as of Friday, Oct. 30:
- Poughkeepsie: 22;
- Poughkeepsie City: 21;
- Beacon City: 18;
- East Fishkill: 15;
- Fishkill: 15;
- LaGrange: 11
- Wappinger: 9;
- Dover: 9;
- Wappingers Falls Village: 6;
- Hyde Park: 6;
There are less than five COVID-19 cases in:
- Amenia;
- Beekman;
- Clinton;
- Fishkill Village;
- Hyde Park;
- 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;
- Washington.
Since the pandemic began, New York has administered 14,243,871 COVID-19 tests, with 503,176 testing positive. A total of 25,792 New Yorkers have died since mid-March.
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