GA Reports Most Coronavirus Cases In One Day Since Summer Surge
ATLANTA, GA — Georgia posted on Tuesday its highest single-day total of new COVID-19 cases in more than three months.
In its daily report, Georgia’s health department reported 3,603 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The last time Georgia reported anywhere near that many infections was on Aug. 12, with 3,531 newly confirmed cases. The last time Georgia exceeded that number was a spike of 4,376 new infections on Aug. 8, near the height of the summer surge.
Tuesday’s report also set a 7-day moving average for new COVID-19 cases at 2,240.9. The last time it was higher was 2,346.4 on Aug. 27, as the summer surge was shrinking.
GEORGIA CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FOR NOV. 17, 2020
The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 391,466 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17. According to the health department’s website, that includes 3,603 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours. In addition, Georgia reported 924 new antigen-positive cases over the last 24 hours, which are considered to be probable cases of COVID-19.
Georgia has reported 8,496 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 27 more confirmed deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. Georgia also reported 512 probable deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic. These probable deaths include fatalities with indirect evidence of COVID-19.
Georgia reported 33,439 hospitalizations — 174 more than the day before — and 6,259 admissions so far to intensive-care units. The percentage of ICU beds in use statewide rose about 2 percent to 80.2 percent of capacity, but not all of these beds are being used by COVID-19 patients. Almost 29 percent of total ventilators available in Georgia are currently in use.
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, exceeding 34,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 for the first time Tuesday. The top five counties for new COVID-19 cases, all in or near metro Atlanta, experienced triple-digit increases in their case counts.
Fulton County: 34,631 cases — 651 new
Gwinnett County: 33,937 cases — 340 new
Cobb County: 24,333 cases — 278 new
DeKalb County: 23,947 cases — 275 new
Hall County: 11,603 cases — 110 new
Chatham County: 10,070 — 54 new
Clayton County: 9,166— 56 new
Richmond County: 8,866 — 38 new
Cherokee County: 8,300 — 131 new
Bibb County: 7,032 — 21 new
Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the most deaths from COVID-19.
Fulton County: 652 deaths — 1 new
Cobb County: 484 deaths — 2 new
Gwinnett County: 475 deaths — 1 new
DeKalb County: 425 deaths
Bibb County: 214 deaths — 1 new
Chatham County: 199 deaths
Dougherty County: 197 deaths
Richmond County: 192 deaths
Hall County: 188 deaths
Clayton County: 188 deaths
All Georgia statistics are available on the state's COVID-19 website.
Globally, more than 55.3 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 1.33 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Tuesday.
In the United States, nearly 11.3 million people have been infected and more than 248,000 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.
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This article originally appeared on the Dallas-Hiram Patch
