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Niagara County COVID-19 Update for Wednesday, September 16th, 2020

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Staff · September 17, 2020
Niagara County COVID-19 Update for Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
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By: Staff Reporter

The Niagara County Department of Health issued the following update on positive COVID-19 cases in Niagara County:

  • 1 new positive case
  • Total of 1679 positives to date (isolations + recoveries + deaths)
  • 40 active cases (38 isolating at home, 2 in hospital)
  • 1538 recovered
  • 101 deaths
  • 82,887 people tested (source: https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/ )

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

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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