ATLANTA, GA – Georgia reported 92 more deaths due to COVID-19 in its report Friday afternoon.
Because statistics are adjusted up or down retroactively as more data becomes available, it’s not certain that 92 kills are a one-day record, but it’s probably up there.
Georgia also reported 4,177 new cases of COVID-19 Friday, marking the ninth time so far that the state’s one-day total exceeded 4,000.
In addition, Georgia has added 280 more hospitalizations, with a total of 3700 extensive care revenues to date due to coronavirus.
Those who test positive for COVID-19 do not necessarily have poor health; in some cases, they may not even have symptoms, but they can transmit coronavirus to other vulnerable people.
CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that a total of 209,004 showed instances of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Friday. According to the Department of Health’s website, these 4,177 new cases showed instances in the last 24 hours.
Georgia has also reported 4,117 deaths to date after COVID-19, with 92 more deaths recorded in the past 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 20,282 hospitalizations – 280 more than the day after – and 3,700 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. Gwinnett surpassed 19,000 instances for the first time and Cobb surpassed 13,000 on Friday.
Fulton County: 19647 – 417 new
Gwinnett County: 19187 – 333 new
DeKalb County: 13509-272 new
Cobb County: 13049 – 331 new
Hall County: 5947 instances – one hundred 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: 420 deaths – 10 new
Cobb County: 317 deaths – new
Gwinnett County: 254 deaths – 10 new
DeKalb County: 237 deaths — 3 new
Dougherty County: deaths
On Friday, Georgia administered nearly 2 million COVID-19 tests, of which approximately 12% are the least reliable used to find antibodies.
For a more reliable verification of the virus itself, 11% of the checks came back positive. For less reliable antibody testing, 6.7% tested positive. The overall positive rate is around 10.5 consistent with percent.
As more and more Georgians have been reviewed in recent weeks, positive percentages for both viral and general controls have increased slightly. On July 6, the percentage of checks overall that yielded positive results was only 8.7%.
All Georgia statistics can be obtained on the state’s COVID-19 website.
Globally, nearly 19.2 million people have been tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 716,000 people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Friday.
In the United States, more than 4.9 million other people were inflamed and more than 160,000 people died from COVID-19 on Friday. The United States has only about 4% of the world’s population, yet they showed more cases and deaths than any other country.
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This article was originally published in the Douglasville Patch.