Orleans active Covid cases stay at 49 – 28 new cases and 28 recoveries since Thursday

Orleans County currently has 49 active Covid cases, which is the same since Thursday when the Genesee and Orleans County Health Departments last updated the local Covid data.

Orleans has had 28 new reported cases since then – and also 28 recoveries where previous positive individuals completed their 10-day isolation and were removed from mandatory isolation.

Those 28 new cases are in the age groups of 0-19, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. There are three Orleans County residents hospitalized due to Covid.

Orleans currently remains in an orange zone from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That signifies “substantial” community spread of Covid, but is down from being in a red zone for “high” community spread.

Genesee County is currently in a red zone, like 89 percent of the counties in the United States, according to the CDC database.

Genesee is reporting 39 new positive cases of Covid since Thursday, and 35 more recoveries. That increases the county’s number of active cases to 53. The new cases are in the age groups of 0-19, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

There are 10 Genesee residents currently hospitalized due to Covid, the Genesee and Orleans County Health Departments reported this afternoon.