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.
Fulton County: 30,264 cases — 123 new
Gwinnett County: 29,959 cases — 43 new
Cobb County: 21,453 cases — 86 new
DeKalb County: 20,583 cases — 101 new
Hall County: 10,485 cases — 41 new
Chatham County: 9,245 — 25 new
Clayton County: 7,983 — 35 new
Richmond County: 7,816 — 40 new
Cherokee County: 6,881 — 61 new
Bibb County: 6,520 — 21 new
Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the most deaths from COVID-19.
Fulton County: 613 deaths — 1 new
Cobb County: 449 deaths
Gwinnett County: 438 deaths — 2 new
DeKalb County: 393 deaths — 2 new
Dougherty County: 190 deaths
Bibb County: 190 deaths
Chatham County: 186 deaths
Clayton County: 175 deaths
Richmond County: 175 deaths
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.
This article originally appeared on the East Cobb Patch