Georgia Sees Almost 1,000 New COVID-19 Cases in 24 Hours

GEORGIA — Georgia added nearly 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours, according to the latest report from theGeorgia Department of Public Health. In addition, 46 more people died of the disease, caused by the novel coronavirus.

As of 3 p.m. Thursday, 54,973 Georgians have been confirmed to have the coronavirus, with 2,375 of them dying from it. More than 9,000 Georgians have been hospitalized, with just more than 2,000 of them in the ICU. No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

Georgia has tested 687,129 people so far, including both viral and antibody testing, with just more than 56,000 testing positive, or 8.2 percent.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta continue to have the highest number of cases, with Fulton County in first with 5,031 confirmed positives. Gwinnett is second with 4,980, DeKalb is third with 4,229, Cobb is fourth with 3,471 and Hall is fifth with 2,699. Today's statistics also identify 1,019 cases of COVID-19 as from "unknown" counties, with 2,641 cases counted as "Non-Georgia."

Fulton County also reports the most deaths, with 273, followed by Cobb County with 214. Gwinnett County and Dougherty County are now tied for third place with 150 deaths each. Rounding out the top six counties are DeKalb in fourth with 139 deaths and Clayton in fifth with 59 deaths.

Globally, more than 7.7 million cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, with 459,575 deaths, according numbers tallied Thursday afternoon by Johns Hopkins. In the U.S., more than 2 million people have been confirmed to have COVID-19, with 113,000 deaths confirmed as of Wednesday.

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