Dutchess County now has fewer than 100 active cases of coronavirus – The Daily Freeman

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Dutchess County is below 100 for the first time in almost 15 months.

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The county reported Friday that it had 97 active cases of the coronavirus, down from the 102 it reported Thursday and the first sub-100 total since 98 cases were reported on March 22, 2020, less than two weeks into the local outbreak.

The Dutchess County caseload, like that in neighboring Ulster County, has been falling precipitously this year as vaccinations ramp up. Dutchess reported a pandemic high of 2,576 active cases of COVID on Jan. 16, just as vaccinations were starting.

Ulster Countypeaked at 2,622 active cases on Jan. 30. The number it reported Friday was just 33, though that was four more than the total reported the previous day.

Ulster has been under the 100-case mark since May 25.

In Dutchess County, there have been 29,460 confirmed cases of COVID since the local outbreak began in March 2020 and 445 COVID-related deaths. Dutchess reported no new deaths on Friday.

The county reported five-COVID-related hospitalizations on Friday, down one from the previous day, and said itslatest seven-day rolling average of positive test results was 0.48%.

Ulster County has had 15,198 confirmed cases of COVID since March 2020, including 14,901 recoveries and 264 deaths. Like Dutchess, Ulster reported no additional deaths on Friday.

Ulster's latest daily rate of positive test results is 0.9% (nine new diagnoses out of 991 test results).

According toNew York state's online vaccine tracker,109,188 Ulster County residents, or 61.1% percent of the population, had received at least one dose of a two-dose vaccine regimen as of Friday, and 97,550 (54.6%) had completed the vaccination series.

The state also said 70.9% of Ulster residents ages 18 and older had received at least one dose.

In Dutchess County, 164,653 residents, or 56.1% of the population, had received at least one dose as of Friday, and 144,374 (49.2%) were fully vaccinated, according to the state.

The state also said 65.9% of Dutchess residents 18 and older had received at least one shot.

New York state on Friday reportedjust one new case of COVID-19 in area school districts an off-site student of Kerhonkson Elementary School.

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