GA Reports More Than 3.6K New COVID-19 Cases, 2nd Most In One Day

ATLANTA, GA — Georgia reported 3,643 new cases Monday of COVID-19 — the second biggest one-day increase since the pandemic started. The positivity rate for those tested hovers just under 10 percent.

The state’s health department also reported 25 more deaths since Sunday from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

The Georgia Department of Public Health reported a total of 120,569 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Monday. That's 3,643 more than was reported at the same time Sunday. Georgia’s record for most new COVID-19 cases in a day is 4,484, set on Friday.

Georgia also reported 3,026 deaths so far from COVID-19, 25 more that reported Sunday. In addition, the state reported 13,476 hospitalizations — 217 more than the day before — and 2,643 admissions to intensive-care units.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta continue to have the highest number of positives, with Gwinnett still in the lead. Fulton County joined Gwinnett County for the first time Monday by posting more than 11,000 cases of COVID-19.

• Gwinnett County: 11,691 cases — 387 new
• Fulton County: 11,080 cases — 485 new
• DeKalb County: 8,618 cases — 365 new
• Cobb County: 7,235 cases — 186 new
• Hall County: 3,874 cases — 61 new

Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the highest number of deaths. The lone exception is Dougherty County, the site of Georgia's first major outbreak.

• Fulton County: 326 deaths
• Cobb County: 256 deaths
• Gwinnett County: 185 deaths
• DeKalb County: 182 deaths
• Dougherty County: 156 deaths

As of Monday, nearly 1.3 million Georgians have been tested for COVID-19, with about 14 percent of those tests the less reliable ones used to detect antibodies.

For the first time on July 8, Georgia's COVID-19 website reported separately the percentage of positive results for each type of test without reporting a cumulative percentage. For the more reliable test for the virus itself, 9.9 percent of tests came back positive. For the less reliable test for antibodies, 5.1 percent came back positive. The overall positive rate was about 9.2 percent.

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

Globally, nearly 13 million people have been infected by COVID-19, and more than 570,000 people have died, Johns Hopkins University reported Monday.

In the United States, more than 3.3 million people have been infected and more than 135,000 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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