Albany County reports highest COVID hospitalizations since last February

A man gets a COVID test.[AP Photo / Kathy Willens, File]
Albany County currently has 125 residents in the hospital with COVID. That’s the highest total since last February.
Nineteen people are in the ICU.
A man in his 50s, and a woman in her 60s have died, bringing the death toll to 482 since the pandemic started.
The county is also reporting 986 new positive cases.
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