ATLANTA, GA – The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported that a total of 311,046 cases showed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p. m. on Thursday, September 23. According to the Department of Health website, this 1,452 new showed instances in the last 24 hours.
Georgia has also reported 6822 deaths to date after COVID-19, with 52 more deaths recorded in the following 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 27,903 hospitalizations, 154 more than the following day, and 5,120 admissions to extensive care sets to date.
No data are available in Georgia on the number of patients cured.
Counties within or near the Atlanta metropolitan area continue to have the highest number of positive cases, with Fulton County still leading the way and Gwinnett County joining with more than 27,000 cases. In addition, Hall County exceeded 9,000 instances of COVID-19 for the first time. Thursday time.
Fulton County: 27305 instances – new
Gwinnett County: 27051 instances – new
Cobb County: 19354 instances – new
DeKalb County: 18418-116 new
Hall County: 9035 – 86 new
Counties in or near the Atlanta subway also continue to have the highest number of COVID-19 deaths. The only exception is Dougherty County, Georgia’s first primary outbreak.
Fulton County: 569 deaths – 1 new
Cobb County: 423 deaths – 1 new
Gwinnett County: 398 deaths
DeKalb County: 357 deaths – new
Dougherty County: 186 deaths – 1 new
On Thursday, Georgia administered more than 3. 1 million COVID-19 tests, and about 10% of those tests were the least used to detect antibodies.
For the maximum reliability control of the virus itself, 10. 3% of the controls yielded positive results; for less reliable antibody control, 8. 2% yielded positive results; the overall positive rate was about 10. 1%.
As more and more Georgians have been verified over the next month, the consistent percentage of positive controls has increased slightly, from about 8% to more than 10%. However, in recent weeks, the consistent percentage of positives has stabilized by approximately 10 According to the World Health Organization, the positive effects of control do not exceed 5% for two weeks before reopening as usual. Georgia reopened largely in April and May, and since then Governor Brian Kemp has encouraged the use of face masks, but has categorically refused to impose the mandate on them.
All Georgia statistics can be obtained on the state’s COVID-19 website.
Worldwide, more than 32 million other people have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 979,000 people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Thursday.
In the United States, more than 6. 9 million other people were inflamed and more than 202,000 people died from COVID-19 on Thursday. The United States has only about 4% of the world’s population, yet more cases showed cases and deaths than any other country. .
This article was originally published in the Dallas-Hiram patch