ALBANY COUNTY — Another county resident has died of COVID-19 and 55 new cases were announced Sunday morning by Albany County executive Daniel McCoy.

The patient who died was a woman in her sixties, bringing the county’s COVID-19 death toll to 144.

“Our positive numbers continue to go up as do our hospitalizations and those in the ICU. If we don’t follow the guidance to stop the spread, the numbers will continue to head in the wrong direction,” said McCy in a statement, announcing the latest tallies.

Statewide, based on test results from Saturday, the positive rate in all of the state’s micro-cluster areas was 3.72 percent, and outside the focus zone areas was 2.23 percent.

The Capital Region, of which Albany County is a part, had a positivity rate of 1.1 percent, tied with the Mohawk Valley for the lowest rate in the state. The highest rate was Western New York at 4.8 percent.

As of Sunday morning, Albany County has 3,913 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019.

Of the new cases, 20 had close contact with someone infected with the disease, three reported traveling out of state, 25 did not have a clear source of infection identified at this time, and seven are health-care workers or residents of a congregate setting.

Currently, 1,298 county residents are under quarantine, down from 1,311. The five-day average for new daily positives jumped to 48.4 from 43.2. There are now 305 active cases in the county, up from 253 on Saturday.

So far, 17,625 people have completed quarantine. Of those, 3,608 had tested positive and recovered.

Thirty-one county residents are hospitalized with the virus, with four of them in intensive-care units. The hospitalization rate has gone down to 0.79 percent from 0.80 percent.