The number of coronavirus cases in Alabama now tops 15,000 with 716 new cases reported since yesterday.
The Alabama Department of Public Health’s May 26 10:30 a.m. numbers show 15,194 cases in the state, 4,743 reported in the last 14 days. The state has tested 192,602 people to date, 72,489 in the last 14 days. The overall positive rate for all those tested is 7.9%, a figure that drops to 6.5% in the last two weeks.
Counties showing the biggest increases were Montgomery (+123); Tuscaloosa (+67); and Bullock and Walker, each with +40. Each of those counties showed an increase yesterday but ADPH has not responded to questions about delays in reporting cases related to the Memorial Day holiday.
Alabama has 566 COVID deaths, an increase of 15 from the last fatality total released on May 24.
Here are the latest county-by-county case numbers. The figure in parenthesis reflects the increase from the previous day:
Autauga – 173 (+14)
Baldwin – 276 (+2)
Barbour – 116 (+6)
Bibb – 62 (+3)
Blount – 49
Bullock – 141 (+40)
Butler – 368 (+24)
Calhoun – 147 (+6)
Chambers – 337 (+1)
Cherokee – 33
Chilton – 87
Choctaw – 145 (+4)
Clarke – 113 (+11)
Clay – 27
Cleburne – 13
Coffee – 209 (+9)
Colbert – 145 (+9)
Conecuh – 29 (+4)
Coosa – 34 (+1)
Covington – 68 (+3)
Crenshaw – 60 (+2)
Cullman – 80 (+4)
Dale – 88 (+4)
Dallas – 212 (+15)
DeKalb – 227 (+5)
Elmore – 277 (+14)
Escambia – 44 (+1)
Etowah – 238 (+2)
Fayette – 11
Franklin –474 (+25)
Geneva – 37 (+4)
Greene – 91 (+2)
Hale – 133 (+6)
Henry – 67 (+10)
Houston – 177 (+13)
Jackson – 71 (+2)
Jefferson – 1,630 (+16)
Lamar – 20
Lauderdale – 138 (+10)
Lawrence – 44 (+2)
Lee – 512 (+13)
Limestone – 80 (+6)
Lowndes – 203 (+17)
Macon – 63 (+3)
Madison – 305 (+9)
Marengo – 141 (+7)
Marion – 116 (+3)
Marshall – 652
Mobile – 2,033 (+22)
Monroe – 33 (+5)
Montgomery – 1,311 (+123)
Morgan – 182 (+20)
Perry – 35 (+4)
Pickens – 95 (+3)
Pike – 151 (+14)
Randolph – 124
Russell – 140 (+12)
Shelby – 453 (+19)
St. Clair – 104 (+2)
Sumter – 198 (+7)
Talladega – 92 (+1)
Tallapoosa – 403 (+7)
Tuscaloosa – 507 (+67)
Walker – 249 (+40)
Washington – 65 (+1)
Wilcox – 119 (+1)
Winston – 70 (+8)