GA Coronavirus: State Posts Highest Positive Numbers In A Month

ATLANTA, GA — The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 345,535 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22. According to the health department’s website, that includes 1,824 newly confirmed cases over the last 24 hours.

Georgia also reported 7,729 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 27 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 30,829 hospitalizations — 153 more than the day before — and 5,774 admissions so far to intensive-care units.

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: 30,264 cases — 123 new
2. Gwinnett County: 29,959 cases — 43 new
3. Cobb County: 21,453 cases — 86 new
4. DeKalb County: 20,583 cases — 101 new
5. Hall County: 10,485 cases — 41 new
6. Chatham County: 9,245 — 25 new
7. Clayton County: 7,983 — 35 new
8. Richmond County: 7,816 — 40 new
9. Cherokee County: 6,881 — 61 new
10. Bibb County: 6,520 — 21 new

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

1. Fulton County: 613 deaths — 1 new
2. Cobb County: 449 deaths
3. Gwinnett County: 438 deaths — 2 new
4. DeKalb County: 393 deaths — 2 new
5. Dougherty County: 190 deaths
6. Bibb County: 190 deaths
7. Chatham County: 186 deaths
8. Clayton County: 175 deaths
9. Richmond County: 175 deaths
10. Muscogee County: 173 deaths

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

Globally, more than 41.5 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 1.1 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Thursday.

In the United States, nearly 8.4 million people have been infected and more than 222,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Thursday. The U.S. has only about 4 percent of the world's population but more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country.