Albany County has now seen a third of its total COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic come just from November cases.

County Executive Dan McCoy said in the last day, there are 109 new cases, and two people – a woman in her 60s and a man in his 70s – died in the last day. That brings the county’s total to 150 since the pandemic began.

Eighty-four of the new cases have no clear source of infection.

To date, there have been 5,279 positive cases in the county, 1,740 since Nov. 1.

The county is in danger of reaching the state’s yellow zone status as the trend of cases continues. In a yellow zone, houses of worship are limited to 50 percent of their maximum capacity; non-residential gatherings are limited to 25 people maximum, both indoors and outdoors; and schools must conduct 20 percent weekly testing of in-person students and faculty.

On a positive note, there were no new hospitalizations in the last day, and that total remains at 41.

McCoy stressed that people should avoid travel and big gatherings for Thanksgiving, echoing Centers for Disease Control guidelines. He said officials are seeing more people getting tested, but noted that they’re getting tested because they think it means that makes it OK for them to gather for Thanksgiving.

“Our actions will determine how many will be infected over the course of the next couple weeks,” McCoy said. “It depends on how we act going forward, whether or not more people are going to die from this, or more people are going to get sick, or how many are going to be in the hospital. So please, please, do the right thing tomorrow.”