ALBANY COUNTY — Another county resident has succumbed to coronavirus disease 2019, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy announced in a release on Sunday morning.

The patient who died on Saturday was a woman in her sixties who had lived in a nursing home.

This brings Albany County’s COVID-19 death toll to 168.

McCoy also announced 143 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the county’s total of confirmed cases to 6,635 since the first two cases were announced on March 12.

Of the 143 new cases, 36 had close contact with someone infected with the disease, 105 did not have a clear source of infection identified at this time, and two are health-care workers or residents of congregate settings.

The five-day average for new daily positives decreased to 161.8 from 165. There are now 1,254 active cases in the county, an increase from 1,106 on Saturday. The number of people under mandatory quarantine increased to 2,345 from 2,191.

So far, 25,553 county residents have completed quarantine. Of those, 5,381 had tested positive and recovered.

Three new hospitalizations were reported overnight, and there are 84 county residents currently hospitalized from the virus — a net decrease of five. Fourteen patients remain in intensive-care units. The county’s hospitalization rate is now 1.26 percent.

“We’re closely monitoring hospital capacity and have implemented triggers to ensure hospitals have what they need,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo in a statement on Sunday as he released the latest statewide numbers. “The light at the end of the tunnel is the vaccine, and one is coming, but until then we must be disciplined.

“Public-health experts agree households and private gatherings are a major driver of transmission right now, demonstrating once again that it is our actions that determine the infection rate. We know what works: Wear a mask, avoid indoor gatherings, and socially distance, and the local governments must do enforcement.”

Statewide, the positive testing rate, based on results from Saturday, is 4.71percent, Cuomo announced. That includes results from the micro-cluster zones across the state, where infection rates are highest, which together had a positivity rate of 6.22 percent.

The Capital Region, of which Albany County is a part, had a seven-day average of 4.50 percent. Among the state’s 10 regions, the Southern Tier continues to have the lowest rate, at 2.33, percent while Western New York continues to have the highest rate, at 7.40 percent.