After months of low or even zero cases of COVID-19, Herkimer County is seeing its fair share of a second wave of COVID-19. On Tuesday, the Herkimer County Department of Health reported 19 new positive cases in the county with two people hospitalized. There are now a total 110 active cases of the virus there.
Oneida County health officials reported 70 new COVID positive test results on Thursday along with the death of a another nursing home resident.
The death is the 135th Oneida County resident who has died from coronavirus since the pandemic began, and the sixth death in November...
Like many other counties in Upstate New York, Herkimer County had flattened the curve on COVID-19 and was seeing only a few cases on a daily basis. That seems to have changed as coronavirus is increasing dramatically throughout the Mohawk Valley and Central New York.
For the second day in a row, Oneida County has broken its own single-day record for new cases and active cases. And, along with the 74 new positive tests results announced on Wednesday came word of another coronavirus death.
The most recent death is the county's 134 linked to coronavirus...
Oneida County set a record Tuesday for the largest number of new coronavirus cases in one day, adding 68 cases just one day after the county executive warned that if numbers continued to grow additional COVID restrictions could be put in place.
Friday marked the second largest single-day total for new COVID-19 cases in Oneida County since the coronavirus pandemic began, as health officials reported 50 new positive test results.