Niagara County Update: July 1-July 7, 2021

The Niagara County Department of Health issued the following weekly update on positive COVID-19 cases in Niagara County from July 1 through July 7.  Reports will be made each Wednesday.

• 20 new positive cases
• Total of 19,796 positives to date (isolations + recoveries + deaths)
• 20 active cases (18 isolating at home, 2 in hospital)
• 19,415 recovered
• 361 deaths
• 114,993 residents with at least one vaccine dose (https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/covid-19-vaccine-tracker)
• .5% Positivity Rate, 7-day average (https://forward.ny.gov/percentage-positive-results-county-dashboard)

The Niagara County heat map that breaks the positive cases down by municipality since the beginning of the pandemic can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/ybgzmusw.

The Niagara County heat map that breaks down active cases only by municipality can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/y5b4hldh.

Data on nursing home fatalities is tracked by New York State.  That information can be found here:                 https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf        

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