GA Coronavirus: Monday's Cases Dips Considerably; Only 3 Deaths

ATLANTA, GA — Georgia’s coronavirus statistics were significantly lower again on Monday, with only 2,271 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two deaths over the last 24 hours.

Sixty new hospitalizations were also reported on Monday, also down from previous days.

Those lower numbers may or may not represent a trend. Numbers reported on Sunday and Monday typically are lower because of the weekend. They usually bounce back on Tuesday.

Those who test positive for COVID-19 don’t necessarily become ill — in some cases, they may not even show symptoms — but they can spread the coronavirus to others who are vulnerable.

CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS

The Georgia Department of Public Health reported a total of 195,435 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Monday. According to the health department’s website, that includes 2,271 newly confirmed cases over the last 24 hours.

Georgia also reported 3,842 deaths so far from COVID-19, with only two more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 19,124 hospitalizations — 60 more than the day before — and 3,475 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 continue to have the highest number of positives, with Fulton County still in the lead, exceeding 18,000 cases for the first time Monday.

• Fulton County: 18,224 cases — 145 new
• Gwinnett County: 17,927 cases — 146 new
• DeKalb County: 12,604 cases — 128 new
• Cobb County: 11,844 cases — 154 new
• Hall County: 5,547 cases — 24 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: 398 deaths
• Cobb County: 298 deaths
• Gwinnett County: 240 deaths
• DeKalb County: 225 deaths
• Dougherty County: 169 deaths

As of Monday, Georgia has administered more than 1.85 million COVID-19 tests, with about 12 percent of those tests the less reliable ones used to detect antibodies.

For the more reliable test for the virus itself, 11 percent of tests came back positive. For the less reliable test for antibodies, 6.6 percent came back positive. The overall positive rate was about 10.4 percent.

As more Georgians were tested over the last few weeks, positive percentages for both the virus test and tests overall have inched upward. On July 6, the percentage of tests overall that came back positive was only 8.7 percent.

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

Globally, more than 18.1 million people have been tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 690,000 people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Monday.

In the United States, nearly 4.7 million people have been infected and more than 155,000 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.