The Greene County Public Health Department announced 17 more COVID-19 cases in Greene County Oct. 7. Lissa Harris of The River Newsroom reported that, "Greene County Public Health informs me that because they are at capacity for testing, they are currently only testing people who are symptomatic or have a known COVID-19-positive contact." In all, there have been 41 new positive cases in the county of about 47,000 residents in the past week. On Oct. 6 6.57 percent, or 13 out of 198 people, tested positive for COVID-19. Of the 43 active cases there now, 31 traced to the Greene Correctional Facility, the state prison in Coxsackie. There were also cases reported in the last week in the 6th grade at the Greenville school, and in the Greene County Office Building in Catskill. Meanwhile, Albany County reported 27 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 7, according to the Times Union. Columbia County, on the other hand, reported only one new coronavirus case on Oct. 7.