ALBANY COUNTY — Another Albany County resident — a man in his 80s with multiple underlying health issues — has succumbed to COVID-19. This brings the county’s death toll to 59.

“Fifty-nine people passed away and this is the 59th day; it’s surreal,” said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy in making the announcement at his Saturday morning briefing. The county had announced its first two cases of COVID-19 on March 12.

The latest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic died at the Veterans Administration Hospital but had been a resident of Shaker Place, the county’s nursing home. This is the ninth resident of Shaker Place who has died of the disease.

Asked if he had reached out to the governor’s office to object to Shaker Place residents who had COVID-19 being returned to the nursing home, McCoy said he hadn’t. “They’re our residents,” he said. When they are finished with their hospital treatment, McCoy said, “We take them back.”

Fifty-three residents of Shaker Place have tested positive for COVID-19 including two who have recovered; 14 employees have tested positive and remain out, while 12 others have been cleared to return to work.

As of Saturday morning, 1,336 Albany County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 while 966 are under mandatory quarantine and 15 are under precautionary quarantine.

So far, 3,083 county residents have completed quarantine, with 799 of them having tested positive and recovered.

For the last seven days, the county has seen about 20 new cases per day, McCoy said. “Did we hit our apex?” he asked, “Time will tell.”

Twenty-eight county residents are now hospitalized with six of them in intensive-care units. The hospitalization rate for Albany County stands at 2.09 percent of those who have tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019.

Also on Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed 2,715 additional COVID-19 cases statewide, bringing the total to 333,122.

“The total hospitalization rate has dropped, the intubation rate has dropped, the number of new cases per day has dropped down to 572 ...,” said Cuomo at his Saturday press briefing. “You see it hasn’t been that level since we started back March 20, March 21. So, that is welcome news.”

Cuomo also announced 226 more deaths since Friday. “This is not welcome news and this has been heartbreaking every day — 226 deaths; 226 families. And you see how that number has been infuriatingly constant; 226 is where we were five days ago. So, we would like to see that number dropping at a far faster rate than it has been dropping.”