County resident in her 40s dies, bringing COVID-19 death toll to 330

ALBANY COUNTY — One of the youngest Albany County residents to succumb to COVID-19 — a woman in her forties — died on Saturday as did a woman in her nineties, the Albany County executive, Daniel McCoy, announced in a release on Saturday morning.

This brings the county’s COVID-19 death toll to 330.

McCoy also announced 130 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the county’s total to 18,952 since the start of the pandemic in March.

Of the new cases, 102 did not have clear sources of infection identified, 25 had close contact with someone infected with the disease, and three were health-care workers or residents of congregate settings.

The five-day average for new daily positives has increased to 114.8 from 105.6. There are now 1,100 active cases in the county, down from 1,143 on Friday.

The number of Albany County residents under mandatory quarantine decreased to 2,223 from 2,394. So far, 57,266 residents have completed quarantine. Of those, 17,852 had tested positive and recovered. That is an increase of 165 recoveries since Friday.

There were 11 new hospitalizations overnight, and there are 106 county residents currently hospitalized from the virus. There are now 14 patients in intensive-care units, one fewer than on Friday.

Of the state’s 10 regions, the Capital Region, according to data released by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office on Saturday, continues to have the worst rate for available hospital beds, at 27 percent, and for available ICU beds, at 15 percent.

Currently, 361 Capital Region residents are hospitalized with COVID-19, which is 0.03 percent of the region’s population.

Statewide, 0.04 percent of New Yorkers are hospitalized with the virus, leaving 34 percent of hospital beds available.

Currently, 203 of the Capital Region’s 250 ICU beds are filled.

Statewide,  26 percent of ICU beds are available.

The infection rate for the Capital Region, as of Friday, as a seven-day average, was 3.78 percent. Statewide, the positivity rate was 4.58 percent.

Albany County, as of Friday, as a seven-day rolling average, had an infection rate of 4.1 percent, according to the state’s dashboard.

The Capital Region has administered 128,942 of the 164,575 vaccine doses it was given, which is 78 percent.

Statewide, 78 percent of doses have been administered.

As of Feb. 6, Albany County had administered 90 percent of its doses, according to the state’s vaccine dashboard, which now also tracks statewide demographic data.

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