GA Coronavirus: Fulton County Surpasses 27K Total COVID-19 Cases
ATLANTA, GA — The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 307,339 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21. According to the health department’s website, that includes 1,187 newly confirmed cases over the last 24 hours.
Georgia also reported 6,604 deaths so far from COVID-19, with three more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 27,394 hospitalizations — 17 more than the day before — and 5,002 admissions so far to intensive-care units.
Because of lags in reporting, coronavirus numbers reported after weekends are generally lower and don’t necessarily reflect overall trends.
No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.
Counties in or near metro Atlanta continue to have the highest number of positives, with Fulton County still in the lead and surpassing 27,000 cases total of COVID-19 on Monday.
Fulton County: 27,080 cases — 88 new
Gwinnett County: 26,678 cases — 60 new
Cobb County: 19,092 cases — 51 new
DeKalb County: 18,110 cases — 38 new
Hall County: 8,827 cases — 42 new
Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the most deaths from COVID-19. The lone exception is Dougherty County, site of Georgia's first major outbreak.
Fulton County: 564 deaths
Cobb County: 421 deaths
Gwinnett County: 391 deaths
DeKalb County: 349 deaths
Dougherty County: 182 deaths
As of Monday, Georgia has administered more than 3 million COVID-19 tests, with about 10 percent of those tests the less reliable ones used to detect antibodies.
For the more reliable test for the virus itself, 10.3 percent of tests came back positive. For the less reliable test for antibodies, 8.2 percent came back positive. The overall positive rate was about 10 percent.
As more Georgians were tested over the last month, the percentage of positive tests inched upward from about 8 percent to more than 10 percent. However, over the last few weeks, the percentage of positives has stabilized at just more than 10 percent and is now starting to slowly drop. According to the World Health Organization, positive test results should no more than 5 percent for two weeks before reopening for business as usual. Georgia largely reopened for business in April and May, and since then Gov. Brian Kemp has promoted the use of face masks but has steadfastly refused to mandate them.
All Georgia statistics are available on the state's COVID-19 website.
Globally, more than 31 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 962,000 people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Monday.
In the United States, more than 6.8 million people have been infected and nearly 200,000 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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This article originally appeared on the Dacula Patch
