Two more COVID-19 deaths are reported

Eighth resident at Rensselaer County nursing home dies

Rensselaer County on Saturday confirmed the death of a Troy Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing resident from COVID-19.

The 60-year-old man died at Samaritan Hospital. He is the eighth person at the Troy Center to have died from the illness. He is also the 32nd private nursing home resident in the county to die, and the county’s 42nd overall victim, officials said.

Two new infections were reported, a Poestenkill woman, 23, and a Rensselaer man, 19. There have been 895 cases since the pandemic started and 33 cases remain active, according to Rensselaer County’s most recent Facebook post.

Seven residents are hospitalized for COVID-19, including two in ICU.

Later Saturday, county officials said an employee at the county-run Van Rensselaer Manor nursing home tested positive — the 10th case involving an employee there.

The certified nursing assistant lives in Saratoga County and last worked at the home on Thursday. It is the only active case involving a Manor employee. Families of residents at the home have been notified of the case, officials said.

There has been one case of COVID-19 involving a Manor resident, which has since been cleared.

Warren County officials said Saturday that a resident who lived at home and who had a number of co-morbidities died of COVID-19.

The person became ill in recent days and had reached out at one point to a medical provider earlier in the week for a telephone consultation, the conty said in a statement. First responders went to the home Thursday evening when family members were concerned their calls were not answered, county officials said. A postmortem test was later performed, and the person was confirmed to have had COVID-19.

A person who was regularly in close contact with the victim has also tested positive. The county said it identified the contacts of both cases and initiated quarantines. The county is trying to determine how the two residents were infected.

The county is monitoring 10 active cases as of

Saturday. None are hospitalized.

Albany County saw three new positive cases of COVID-19 on Friday, county officials said Saturday.

The total number of cases since the pandemic began is now 2,566, and the county’s five-day average has decreased from 10.2 to nine, according to County Executive Daniel P. Mccoy’s daily update. Two of the county’s new cases are people who had close contact with positive cases, and one did not have a clear path of transmission.

There are 58 active cases in the county, and of those, 15 people are currently hospitalized, with two in intensive care. As of Saturday morning, 2,508 people have recovered from the virus.

On the statewide level, two deaths, one on Long Island and the other in Brooklyn, were listed on Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said.

The state logged its

29th straight day with an infection rate below one percent, as 0.80 percent of Friday’s tests were positive. There were 801 more cases in the state, bringing the total to 438,772.

Contributing: Eduardo Medina, Tim Blydenburgh