Essex County has recorded zero new cases of COVID-19 in the past week and currently has zero active cases of COVID-19, the county Health Department reported Tuesday.

The department’s announcement on Tuesday marks the first time since Aug. 7, 2020, that there have been zero Essex County residents in isolation with COVID-19.

Since March 2020, altogether, 1,642 Essex County residents have been required to stay in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19. At least 27 people in this county have died from COVID-19, though the number may be higher. At least one person, 22-year-old Bryce Laughlin, has not yet been counted as a COVID-19 death. Laughlin’s mother told the Enterprise last month that the family doesn’t have his official death certificate yet, but she knew based on the autopsy that he had COVID-19 in his lungs when he died in Lake Placid this past April.

Essex County’s largest population center, and the place which often had the most COVID-19 cases at any given time, is the town of North Elba, which includes the village of Lake Placid, hamlet of Ray Brook and part of the village of Saranac Lake. In Lake Placid’s 12946 ZIP code, 98% of adults aged 18 and older — or 3,349 people — have been at least partially vaccinated as of May 23, according to data from the state Immunization Information System. At least 86% of people aged 16 and up, or 3,065 people, have been fully vaccinated in the Lake Placid ZIP code as of May 23. In Saranac Lake’s 12983 ZIP code, 63% of people aged 16 and up have been fully vaccinated, and 74% of people aged 18 and up have been at least partially vaccinated. In Ray Brook, at least 100 people are fully vaccinated and 114 have had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, according to state data — however, those figures may be artificially low because it likely doesn’t include vaccinations among inmates of Ray Brook’s two prisons.

Countywide, 52% of Essex County residents had been fully vaccinated as of Tuesday; 58.2% had gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Franklin County Public Health reported on Tuesday that 21 residents were in isolation with COVID-19 and another 51 people were in quarantine. Countywide, 47.3% of the population had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday; about 41.8% had been fully vaccinated, according to state Department of Health data.