ALBANY COUNTY — While Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy on Saturday morning announced the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since March 4 — 44 residents tested positive — he also announced three more deaths related to the virus.

A woman in her sixties, a woman in her seventies, and a man in his nineties died since Friday morning, according to a release from McCoy’s office.

Their deaths bring the county’s toll to 365.

“As our vaccine supply increases and more people are getting their shots, it’s deeply saddening to report that we lost three more Albany County residents to the virus,” said McCoy in the release.

Currently 27.5 percent of Albany County’s residents have received at least one shot of vaccine, according to the state’s vaccine tracker. The tracker lists the county’s population at about 307,000.

A total of 84,459 residents have received one shot while 43,087 have received two shots to complete the series for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

Statewide, 21.7 percent of New Yorkers have had at least one shot while 11 percent have completed a vaccine series, according to a Saturday release from the governor’s office.

The state tracker reports Hamilton County, in the Adirondacks, with a population of about 4,400, has  the highest percentage of residents receiving at least one shot — 51.8 percent.

The worst rate is in Orleans County in western New York, at 16.1 percent. Orleans County has about 40,600 residents.

Albany County’s 44 new cases brings the total of confirmed cases to 21,238.

Of the new cases, 28 did not have clear sources of infection identified, 12 had close contact with someone infected with the disease, and four were health-care workers or residents of congregate settings.

The five-day average for new daily positives has decreased to 54.2 from 56.6. There are now 512 active cases in the county, down from 523 on Friday.

The number of Albany County residents under quarantine decreased to 1,326 from 1,340. So far, 66,968 residents have completed quarantine. Of those, 20,726 had tested positive and recovered. That is an increase of 55 recoveries since Friday.

There was one new hospitalization overnight, and there are now 23 county residents hospitalized from the virus. There are currently four patients in intensive-care units, one fewer than on Friday.

Statewide, as of Friday, as a seven-day rolling average, New York had an infection rate of 3.2 percent, according to the state dashboard.

Albany County, also as a seven-day average on Friday, had a rate of 2.0 percent.