Again No Local COVID Deaths, New Cases Remain Low
Make if five straight days that Oneida County has gone without a COVID-19 death.
As we mentioned in Monday s report, five consecutive days is the longest the county has gone without a virus-related fatality since Halloween. There were 32 new COVID positive cases added in the latest report on Tuesday. To date, Oneida County has seen 19,712 lab-confirmed cases of the virus.
The active case total was down slights from the previous day, falling from 495 to 484. Monday s report marked the first time in nearly four months that county s active case number dipped below 500.
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Oneida County has gone four consecutive days without reporting a COVID-19 related death. The last time Oneida County health officials were able to report no deaths, four-days running, was between October 27 through November 2 - a run of five consecutive days.
The county actually saw a horrible streak that ran from the day before Thanksgiving (Nov 25) through January 20 - marking at least one virus related death each day over that time.
Graphic of Oneida County COVID deaths by day - March 8, 2021 (via OCgov.net)
And, the news on new positive cases is improving, too. There were 35 new cases added in Monday s update. The county s 3-day average of new cases is no hovering in the mid-30. Mid-February marked a low-water mark for average cases when it dropped below 25, so the for a day, however, it s now where near where the Utica-area was after the post-holiday surge that saw the county s daily average case total at about 320 (319).
New cases of COVID-19 in Oneida and Herkimer counties remain relatively low, but Oneida County have five more deaths tied to the virus, according to numbers released on Wednesday.
The five most recent deaths did not include any nursing home residents. Except for one single day, Oneida County has reported one or multiple coronavirus deaths everyday since the day before Thanksgiving. Since last March, the county has lost 371 residents to the disease.
There were 69 new positive cases added in the last day. Meanwhile, the number of active cases in the county and the number of county residents hospitalized with the virus dropped again Wednesday.