ATLANTA, GA — Georgia’s daily coronavirus statistics have followed a pattern over the last few weeks: Numbers dip slightly over the weekend, then pick back up on Tuesday as reports from the previous few days are tabulated.
This Sunday held true to form, with 3,172 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported by Georgia’s health department, along with only 15 deaths. While the number of new cases is still high, both numbers are significantly lower than on Friday, when more than 4,000 new cases and 81 new deaths were reported.
If Sunday’s numbers represent a downward trend, we’ll probably know by Tuesday.
CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that a total of 193177 showed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Sunday. According to the Department of Health’s website, these 3,172 new instances have been shown in the last 24 hours.
Georgia also reported 3,840 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 15 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 19,064 hospitalizations — 69 more than the day before — and 3,475 admissions so far to intensive-care units.
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 positive instances, with Fulton County still at the helm, surpassing 18,000 instances for the first time on Sunday.
Counties on or near the Atlanta Metro also continue to have the maximum number of deaths due to COVID-19. The only exception is Dougherty County, from Georgia’s first primary outbreak. None of Georgia’s five most sensitive counties added deaths on Sunday.
On Sunday, Georgia administered more than 1.85 million COVID-19 tests, of which about 12% are the least used to detect antibodies.
For the maximum reliability control of the virus itself, 10.9% of the controls came back positive. For less reliable antibody control, 6.5% tested positive. The overall positive rate is around 10.4%.
As more and more Georgians have been reviewed in recent weeks, positive percentages for viral control and overall controls have increased slightly. On July 6, the percentage of checks overall that yielded positive only 8.7%.
All Georgia statistics must be held on the state’s COVID-19 website.
Globally, more than 17.8 million people have been infected by COVID-19, and nearly 680,000 people have died, Johns Hopkins University reported Sunday.
In the United States, more than 4.6 million people swelled up and more than 154,000 people died from COVID-19 on Sunday. The United States has only about 4% of the world’s population, yet more showed cases and deaths than any other country.
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