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GA Coronavirus: Deaths Dip, Cases Keep Constant In Daily Report

While the number of deaths from COVID-19 continues to shrink in Wednesday's report, the number of new positives has stayed steady.

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ATLANTA, GA — The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 334,601 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14. According to the health department’s website, that includes 1,331 newly confirmed cases over the last 24 hours.

Georgia also reported 7,470 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 19 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 29,918 hospitalizations — 156 more than the day before — and 5,546 admissions so far to intensive-care units.

No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

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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.

  1. Fulton County: 29,329 cases — 55 new
  2. Gwinnett County: 29,157 cases — 142 new
  3. Cobb County: 20,838 cases — 159 new
  4. DeKalb County: 19,857 cases — 60 new
  5. Hall County: 10,098 cases — 70 new
  6. Chatham County: 8,956 — 29 new
  7. Clayton County: 7,616 — 47 new
  8. Richmond County: 7,571 — 22 new
  9. Cherokee County: 6,571 — 53 new
  10. Bibb County: 6,371 — 36 new

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

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  1. Fulton County: 597 deaths — 3 new
  2. Cobb County: 442 deaths
  3. Gwinnett County: 427 deaths — 2 new
  4. DeKalb County: 383 deaths — 1 new
  5. Dougherty County: 188 deaths
  6. Bibb County: 187 deaths — 1 removed
  7. Chatham County: 178 deaths — 1 new
  8. Muscogee County: 173 deaths
  9. Richmond County: 173 deaths
  10. Clayton County: 170 deaths

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

Globally, more than 38.3 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 1 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Wednesday.

In the United States, nearly 7.9 million people have been infected and more than 216,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Wednesday. 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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