GA Coronavirus: New Cases Top 2,000 For First Time Since October

ATLANTA, GA — The one-day number of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in Georgia topped 2,000 Tuesday for the first time since Oct. 31.

This is only the third time new COVID-19 cases have exceeded 2,000 since the summer surge bottomed out in late September. All three 2,000-plus days have been reported since Oct. 23 and are part of a general upward trend.

In addition, Tuesday’s moving seven-day average for new cases of COVID-19 was 1,687. That number has been less than 1,600 only once since Oct. 28.

Starting last week, Georgia also began reporting antigen-positive cases near the top of its dashboard. On Tuesday, Georgia reported 2,506 “probable” cases of COVID-19 based on these tests. These probable cases are not included in the number of confirmed cases.

Antigen positives — which signal an antibody produced because of the presence of the coronavirus — are “slightly less reliable” than tests for the coronavirus itself, according to Nancy Nydam, spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Health. Antigen tests work best when virus levels are high and people already are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, Nydam said.

For more information about what different kinds of COVID-19 tests mean, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

GEORGIA CORONAVIRUS STATISTICS FOR NOV. 10, 2020

The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 376,054 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10. According to the health department’s website, that includes 2,012 newly confirmed cases over the last 24 hours.

Georgia also reported 8,264 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 43 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 35,598 hospitalizations — 148 more than the day before — and 6,138 admissions so far to intensive-care units. The percentage of ICU beds in use statewide rose to almost 82 percent, but not all of these beds are being used by COVID-19 patients.

No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta and other metropolitan areas continue to have the highest number of positives, with Fulton County still in the lead.

1. Fulton County: 32,925 cases — 139 new
2. Gwinnett County: 32,462 cases — 195 new
3. Cobb County: 23,286 cases — 131 new
4. DeKalb County: 22,787 cases — 137 new
5. Hall County: 11,265 cases — 64 new
6. Chatham County: 9,805 — 33 new
7. Clayton County: 8,842 — 54 new
8. Richmond County: 8,518 — 121 new
9. Cherokee County: 7,777 — 26 new
10. Bibb County: 6,854 — 19 new

Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the most deaths from COVID-19.

1. Fulton County: 642 deaths — 6 new
2. Cobb County: 477 deaths — 7 new
3. Gwinnett County: 461 deaths — 2 new
4. DeKalb County: 411 deaths
5. Bibb County: 210 deaths — 4 new
6. Chatham County: 194 deaths
7. Dougherty County: 194 deaths
8. Richmond County: 189 deaths
9. Hall County: 184 deaths
10. Clayton County: 183 deaths

All Georgia statistics are available on the state's COVID-19 website.

Globally, more than 51.2 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and nearly 1.27 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Tuesday.

In the United States, nearly 10.2 million people have been infected and more than 239,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Tuesday. The U.S. has only about 4 percent of the world's population but more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country.