Cases of COVID-19 are increasing in the state. There are now more than 38-hundred cases of coronavirus infections in Georgia. 3,817 to be exact, and there have been 108 death sin the state with 818 people hospitalized.
Local figures show Athens-Clarke County has 50 confirmed cases with five deaths. Barrow County has 18 cases and two deaths, Oconee County has 14 cases, no deaths, Jackson County has seven cases, no deaths, Madison county three cases with one death and Oglethorpe County has its first case.
More than 16-thousand tests have been performed in Georgia, with commercial labs testing 14,260 people to find 3,491 positives and the GPHL testing 1,921 to discover 326 positive cases.
The largest number of cases, 58%, are in people aged 18 to 59, followed by those 60 and older who comprise 35% of the case. Just one percent of the cases is in those 17 and younger, while the age is unknown in six percent of cases. Women make up 51% of the state’s cases, men 46% and the sex is not known in 3%.
The Georgia Department of Public Health updates the numbers twice daily, at noon and 7 pm at its COVID-19 Daily Status Report.
