ATLANTA, GA – Gov. Brian Kemp caused a typhoon in the state on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, warning of an increase in coronavirus if Georgians don’t stay tuned.
While promoting recent decreases in the amount of coronavirus in Georgia, Kemp warned that these gains could disappear if “some let their guard down,” according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Kemp made his own at a press conference Friday morning at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport, and then his excursion took him to Valdosta, Savannah and Augusta, WSB-TV reported.
“The fitness and well-being of our state depends on what Georgians do this Labor Day weekend,” Kemp said.
The key word is “choose”. Although numbers increased over the summer in what one expert described as a post-Memorial Day wave, Kemp refused to impose masks or other restrictions, ingsing them to wear them, but leaving them to people.
“I think our local officials who commissioned the mask think they’re doing the right thing to keep other people safe,” Kemp said, according to the Atlanta paper.”There are also other people who don’t want a government mandate to do the right thing.”That’s why I’m here today to ask others to be a component of the solution, not a component of the problem.
When the numbers began to rise in July, Kemp sued a local official, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, for a court order he deemed “impractical.”governor and a Democratic mayor – Kemp dropped out of the case in August, signing a decree that allowed localities to order the mask without forcing personal companies to call them.
Kemp’s Labor Day excursion is your time to crusade before the holidays to set but not impose security measures opposed to COVID-19.Just before the fourth of July weekend, Kemp a typhoon in the state warns that school football may be at stake if Georgians don’t hide.
GEORGIA CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that a total of 279,354 showed instances of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m.Friday.According to the fitness department’s website, those 2,132 new cases have been shown in the last 24 hours.
Georgia has also reported 5931 deaths to date after COVID-19, with 65 more deaths recorded in the following 24 hours.In addition, the state reported 25,402 hospitalizations, 143 more than the following day, and 4,664 admissions to extended care sets to date.
In Georgia, no data are available on the number of patients cured.
Counties on or near the Atlanta subway continue to have the number of positives, with Fulton County still at the forefront.In addition, Hall County exceeded 8,000 instances for the first time on Friday.
Fulton County: 25439 instances – one hundred new
Gwinnett County: 24870 – 107 new
Cobb County: 17479-104 new
DeKalb County: 16900 instances – new
Hall County: 8023 instances – 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: 535 deaths – new
Cobb County: 01 deaths – new
Gwinnett County: 3-51 deaths – five new
DeKalb County: 311 deaths
Dougherty County: deaths – 1 new
On Friday, Georgia administered more than 2.6 million COVID-19 tests, of which approximately 10.4% are the least used to find antibodies.
For the maximum reliability control of the virus itself, 10.5% of the controls yielded positive results; for less reliable antibody control, 7.8% yielded positive results; the overall positive rate was around 10.2%.
While more and more Georgians have been revised over the next month, the percentage of positive controls has increased slightly, from about 8% to more than 10%.However, in recent weeks, the percentage of positives has stabilized by just over 10%.According to the World Health Organization, the effects of positive controls 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 give them a mandate.
All Georgia statistics can be obtained on the state’s COVID-19 website.
Worldwide, more than 26.4 million people tested positive for COVID-19 and nearly 871,000 people died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Friday.
In the United States, more than 6.1 million other people were inflamed and more than 187,000 people died from COVID-19 on Friday.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 East Cobb patch