GA Coronavirus: More Than 3,600 New COVID-19 Cases, 16 Deaths

ATLANTA, GA — Georgia reported more than 3,600 new cases of COVID-19 — 555 of them the slightly less reliable antigen-positive tests — in the state’s daily report on Monday. The state’s health department also reported 16 more deaths from COVID-19 over the last 24 hours.

Both numbers are lower than the records set over the last few days, but Monday numbers are typically lower because of lags in reporting over the weekend.

Georgia Coronavirus Numbers For Dec. 21, 2020

The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 512,699 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21. According to the health department’s website, that includes 3,121 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours. In addition, Georgia reported 555 new antigen-positive cases over the last 24 hours, which are considered to be probable cases of COVID-19.

Georgia has reported 9,453 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 16 more confirmed deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. Georgia also reported 946 probable deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. These probable deaths include fatalities with indirect evidence of COVID-19.

Georgia reported 39,502 hospitalizations — 90 more than the day before — and 7,055

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 COVID-19 positives, with Gwinnett County now in the lead and Fulton County very close behind it. These statistics do not include antigen-positive cases.

1. Gwinnett County: 45,864 cases — 257 new
2. Fulton County: 45,851 cases — 278 new
3. Cobb County: 32,951 cases — 168 new
4. DeKalb County: 31,787 cases — 119 new
5. Hall County: 15,736 cases — 111 new
6. Clayton County: 12,069 — 52 new
7. Chatham County: 12,008 — 47 new
8. Richmond County: 11,631 — 20 new
9. Cherokee County: 11,293 — 56 new
10. Whitfield County: 9,918 — 95 new

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

1. Fulton County: 718 deaths
2. Gwinnett County: 539 deaths —1 new
3. Cobb County: 531 deaths — 1 new
4. DeKalb County: 469 deaths — 1 new
5. Bibb County: 234 deaths
6. Chatham County: 221 deaths — 1 new
7. Richmond County: 213 deaths
8. Clayton County: 209 deaths
9. Hall County: 206 deaths
10. Dougherty County: 200 deaths

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

Globally, more than 77.1 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and nearly 1.7 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Monday.

In the United States, nearly 18 million people have been infected and more than 318,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Monday. The U.S. has only about 4 percent of the world's population but more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country.

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