Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon provided an update Monday on new COVID-19 cases for the last three days.
He reported 146 cases for Monday, 191 cases for Sunday and 221 for Saturday. The numbers were down from last weekend’s. Of the new cases, 28% were household exposures, 9% were from travel and 38% were fully vaccinated.
Hospitalizations decreased to 90 residents, with 19 in intensive care. Eighty-nine percent of ICU patients were unvaccinated.
The county reported four deaths from the virus over the last three days, all of them over the age of 60 and described as having underlying condition.
In Oneida County, 258 total new cases have been confirmed from Saturday through Monday, 118 of them were from Saturday alone.
There are 916 total active cases in the county and the positivity rate now stands at 3.8%. Forty-eight county residents are currently in the hospital.
Twenty-eight of them are unvaccinated while 20 of them are vaccinated. Fourteen of them are currently being treated in an ICU.
Unfortunately, seven more people died over the weekend, bringing the county death toll up to 460 since the pandemic began.
Down in the Southern Tier, Steuben County has reported that two more people have died from COVID-19, bringing the death toll up to nearly 200. One was a 74-year-old woman from the town of Bath and the other was a 55-year-old man from Steuben Center.
Public Health Director Darlene Smith says the county is seeing a high amount of spread, as well as a high amount of deaths. She also says they have had triple the number of deaths this month so far compared to last month.
