ATLANTA, GA – Georgia was hit Saturday, reporting more than 5,000 total deaths due to COVID-19.
With a total of 5,092 deaths recorded in Saturday’s report, Georgia joined nine other states that exceeded 5,000 deaths.
Georgia is also the time when the southern state exceeds 5,000 deaths, surpassed by neighboring Florida, which recorded more than 10,000 deaths.
While the daily count of new cases in Georgia has stabilized (only 2615 positive tests for coronavirus), the daily count of new deaths remains high. This represents the consequences of the peak in new instances a few weeks ago.
There is good news: the percentage of positive tests has also stabilized just north of 10%. While this is far from ideal, the World Health Organization advises governments to publish positivity rates of 5% or less for at least two weeks before reopening, at least the numbers are not yet increasing.
CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that a total of 25222 showed instances of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Saturday. According to the Department of Health’s website, these 2,615 new cases showed instances in the last 24 hours.
Georgia has also reported 5092 deaths to date after COVID-19, with 95 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 23,325 hospitalizations – two hundred more than the following day – and 4,251 admissions to extensive care sets to date.
No data are available in Georgia on the number of patients cured.
Counties on or near the Atlanta Metro continue to have the number of positives, with Fulton County still at the forefront.
Fulton County: 23622 – 247 new
Gwinnett County: 22991 – 205 new
DeKalb County: 15,860 – 129 new
Cobb County: 15,816 – 129 new
Hall County: 6981 instances – new
Counties in or near the Atlanta Metro also continue to have the highest death toll by COVID-19. The only exception is Dougherty County, from Georgia’s first primary outbreak.
Fulton County: 489 deaths – new
Cobb County: 368 deaths – 10 new
Gwinnett County: 304 deaths – 2 new
DeKalb County: 278 deaths – 6 new
On Saturday, Georgia administered more than 2.4 million COVID-19 tests, and approximately 11% of those tests were the least used to detect antibodies.
For reliable maximum control of the virus itself, 10.6% of the controls yielded positive results. For less reliable antibody testing, 7.3% tested positive. The overall positive rate is around 10.3%.
While more and more Georgians have been tested in the following month, the test rate has increased slightly, from about 8% to more than 10%. However, in recent weeks, the percentage of s has stabilized by just over 10%.
All Georgia statistics can be obtained on the state’s COVID-19 website.
Worldwide, more than 23 million other people have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 801,000 people have died, Johns Hopkins University reported Saturday.
In the United States, more than 5.6 million more people were inflamed and nearly 176,000 people died from COVID-19 on Saturday. The United States has only about 4% of the world’s population, yet it showed more cases and deaths than any other country.
This article was originally published in the Dacula patch.