Athens County reached 4,221 coronavirus cases Feb. 7 with 559 cases currently considered active.
The county’s COVID-19 death toll reached 11 the week of Jan. 31 when two men were confirmed to have died of the virus. A man in his 70s died Jan. 30 and was confirmed dead of COVID-19 on Feb. 3, and an additional man in the 80+ age range was confirmed dead Feb. 6.
Ohioans 65 and older become eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Feb. 8. Vaccines continue to be administered to health care workers, nursing and assisted living residents, in-person K-12 personnel and those with severe cognitive or developmental disabilities.
So far, 1,726 Athens residents have received the coronavirus vaccine, according to the Athens City-County Health Department website.
There have been four COVID-19 hospitalizations in Athens County in the past seven days. Athens County ICU beds stand at 60.61% capacity with 16.67% occupied by coronavirus patients as of Feb. 2.
Ohio University is continuing to routinely test its students. As of Feb. 5, the university has performed 30,967 total asymptomatic tests with a 7-day positivity rate of 3.8%.
All campus residence halls are at the yellow or orange alert level as of Feb. 5. The yellow alert level halls have had no known positive cases of COVID-19 within the past seven days, and the orange level halls have had a positivity rate between 0.1% and 4.9% in the past seven days.
Pickering Hall currently has the highest positivity rate at 3.7%.
As of Feb. 4, 10.42% of quarantine space and 23.95% of isolation space is in use.
