GEORGIE – While Gov. Brian Kemp says the coronavirus figures are better, the White House says Georgia is included in a new report released Sunday.
The White House Coronavirus Working Group report reads: “Georgia is in the red zone by instance, reporting more than a hundred new instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants last week, with the rate of moment in the country.”
While the state has made progress, as Kemp has boasted, with a minimum in new cases and a minimum in the positivity of the check in the following week, the report says these innovations want to accelerate.
The report lists notable statistics, including
Recommendations on how to mitigate coronavirus in Georgia were also included.
The first focused on nursing homes, suggesting that the state “” will extend coverage for others living in nursing homes, service apartments, and long-term care services by ensuring access to immediate testing throughout the institution in reaction to a resident or member with COVID. 19 with isolation from all workers and positive residents. “
Other tips included:
CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS
On Wednesday, Georgia recorded 50 new deaths, 2,322 new cases and 222 new coronavirus hospitalizations, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health’s website.
In total, Georgia has recorded 260590 cases of coronavirus, 5,311 deaths and 23,939 others hospitalized since March.
Counties on or near the Atlanta Metro continue to have the number of positives, with Fulton County still at the forefront.
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.
On Wednesday, Georgia administered more than 2.5 million COVID-19 tests.
All Georgia statistics can be obtained on the state’s COVID-19 website.
Worldwide, more than 24 million other people have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 821,000 people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Wednesday.
In the United States, more than 5.8 million other people were inflamed and more than 179,000 people died from COVID-19 on Wednesday. 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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