ATLANTA, GA – For the tenth time since the start of the pandemic, Georgia has reported more than 4,000 new cases in a COVID-19 day.
The number of 4,445 new cases reported across the state on Saturday afternoon is one of those to date. The same goes for the death toll of 71 in a day.
In addition, Georgia has added 274 more hospitalizations, with a total of 3739 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 213,427 showed instances of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Saturday. According to the Department of Health’s website, these 4,445 new cases showed instances in the last 24 hours.
Georgia has also reported 4,186 deaths to date by COVID-19, with 72 deaths most recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 20,556 hospitalizations – 274 more than the following day – and 3,739 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 positive results, with Fulton County still leading the way and passing 20,000 positive tests for COVID-19 on Saturday. In addition, Hall County surpassed 6,000 for the first time on Saturday.
Fulton County: 20,049 – 402 new
Gwinnett County: 19548 – 361 new
DeKalb County: 13752 – 243 new
Cobb County: 13,336 cases — 287 new
Hall County: 6035-88 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: 430 deaths – 10 new
Cobb County: 319 deaths – 2 new
Gwinnett County: 260 deaths – 6 new
DeKalb County: 237 deaths
Dougherty County: deaths
On Saturday, Georgia administered more than 2 million COVID-19 tests, of which about 12% are the least used to find antibodies.
For reliable maximum control of the virus itself, 10.9% of the controls yielded positive results. For less reliable antibody testing, 6.8% tested positive. The overall positive rate is around 104 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.
Worldwide, more than 19.4 million other people tested positive for COVID-19 and nearly 723,000 people died, Johns Hopkins University reported Saturday.
In the United States, more than 4.9 million people have been infected and nearly 162,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Saturday. The U.S. has only about 4 percent of the world’s population but more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country.
This article was originally published in the Cartersville patch.