GA Coronavirus: More Than 1,200 More Cases, Only 5 More Deaths

ATLANTA, GA — Georgia reported Monday that more than 1,200 more people have contracted COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours. Five more people have died of it.

At 2:50 p.m. Monday, The Georgia Department of Public Health reported 1,227 more COVID-19 cases, 9,853 hospitalizations and 2,155 admissions to the intensive-care unit.

Testing to date includes 708,026 viral tests, and 142,648 antibody or serology tests. Of 850,674 tests total administered so far, about 8 percent have been positive. No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta continue to have the highest number of cases:

• Gwinnett County: 6,407 confirmed cases
• Fulton County: 5,705 confirmed cases
• DeKalb County: 4,791 confirmed cases
• Cobb County: 3,969 confirmed cases
• Hall County: 2,946 confirmed cases

Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the highest number of deaths, with DeKalb County now edging out Gwinnett for third place. The lone exception is Dougherty County, the site of the Georgia’s first major outbreak.

• Fulton County: 304 deaths
• Cobb County: 229 deaths
• DeKalb County: 165 deaths
• Gwinnett County: 162 deaths
• Dougherty County: 152 deaths

Globally, more than 9 million people have been infected by COVID-19, and nearly 470,000 people have died, Johns Hopkins University reported Monday. In the United States, nearly 2.3 million people have been infected and more than 120,000 people have died from COVID-19.

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