Georgia Sets Record For 7-Day Average Of New COVID-19 Cases

ATLANTA, GA — Another day with high COVID-19 numbers helped lift Georgia’s seven-day moving total of new cases to 4,834 — a state record, and higher than any single day during the summer surge.

For comparison, Georgia’s highest seven-day moving average over the summer was 3,731.7, set on July 24. The highest single-day number of new COVID-19 cases during the summer surge was 4,780, also reported on July 24.

To help set that record, Georgia’s health department reported 5,120 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in its Sunday-afternoon daily report. It marks the fifth time since Thanksgiving the daily count has topped 5,000.

Sunday’s daily report and moving average do not include the 709 antigen-positive cases also reported over the last 24 hours.

Georgia Coronavirus Numbers For Dec. 20, 2020

The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 509,588 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20. According to the health department’s website, that includes 5,120 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours. In addition, Georgia reported 709 new antigen-positive cases over the last 24 hours, which are considered to be probable cases of COVID-19.

Georgia has reported 9,437 deaths so far from COVID-19, with two more confirmed deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. Georgia also reported 946 probable deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. These probable deaths include fatalities with indirect evidence of COVID-19.

Georgia reported 39,412 hospitalizations — 102 more than the day before — and 7,050 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 COVID-19 positives, with Gwinnett County now in the lead and Fulton County close behind it. These statistics do not include antigen-positive cases.

1. Gwinnett County: 45,607 cases — 515 new
2. Fulton County: 45,576 cases — 494 new
3. Cobb County: 32,783 cases — 384 new
4. DeKalb County: 31,668 cases — 304 new
5. Hall County: 15,625 cases — 90 new
6. Clayton County: 12,017 — 95 new
7. Chatham County: 11,961 — 73 new
8. Richmond County: 11,611 — 98 new
9. Cherokee County: 11,237 — 132 new
10. Whitfield County: 9,823 — 126 new

Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the most deaths from COVID-19.

• Fulton County: 718 deaths
• Gwinnett County: 538 deaths —1 new
• Cobb County: 530 deaths
• DeKalb County: 468 deaths
• Bibb County: 234 deaths
• Chatham County: 220 deaths
• Richmond County: 213 deaths
• Clayton County: 209 deaths
• Hall County: 206 deaths
• Dougherty County: 200 deaths

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

Globally, more than 76.6 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 1.69 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Sunday.

In the United States, more than 17.7 million people have been infected and nearly 317,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Sunday. 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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