Albany County continued its worrying number of deaths from coronavirus in January, with the addition of seven more deaths recorded on Saturday, said provincial CEO Dan McCoy. But the seven deaths did not occur overnight, McCoy said.
“There was a delay of four deaths, and we learned that the other three people died in mid-December,” McCoy said in a statement. “I’re investigating why the deaths were just reported in December and that they all live in congregations.”
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The seven deaths include a woman in her 60s; a woman in her 70s; two women and one man in their 80s; and a woman and a man in their 90s. In the province, 272 people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
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The problem with the province’s death reports follows a number of incidents involving municipal institutions. The first time in St. Joseph van Carondelet took place in Latham when nine nuns died in just over a month in December, but five of the deaths were according to health commissioner dr. Elizabeth Whalen did not immediately report to the Albany Department of Health. . The second happened on January 6 when McCoy expressed frustration over the fact that the province then only discovered about four deaths that occurred between December 12 and January 3 in a nursing home.
‘You would hope after ten months that we’ll beat the system. You would think that we would report the old age homes to us, ‘McCoy said at the January 6 briefing.
There were 257 new positive cases of coronavirus overnight, McCoy said in Saturday morning’s briefing, with 200 not having a clear source of infection. Another fifteen people were admitted to the hospital overnight, bringing the total number of hospitalizations to 167.
Statewide
Government Andrew M. Cuomo said Saturday another case of the British variant has been identified in Tompkins County. To date, there are 17 known cases of the variant in the state, a number of which are in Saratoga County.
There were 157 COVID-19 deaths in the state and the positivity rate is 5.77 percent, his office said.
Exposure advice
The Schenectady County Public Health Service has confirmed that an employee who later tested positive for COVID-19 worked at Tops American Grill in Rotterdam from 08:00 to 13:00 on 9 and 10 January and from 08:00 to 12: 00 January. The agency works to identify close quarters of the worker and place them in quarantine. Although the agency believes that there is a low risk of exposure, members of the public who ate at Tops during that time should monitor themselves for symptoms of COVID-19 for 14 days from that date and consider testing. . If the symptoms do develop, stay home and call your doctor and SCPHS at (518) 386-2824 option 2 for further guidance.