Nine more cases of Coronavirus were reported in Cobb County on Thursday, with the count moving up from 28 on Wednesday to 37.
The Georgia Department of Public Health updated its daily status report shortly after noon Thursday, and across the state there are now 287 confirmed cases.
On Wednesday, the statewide total was 197 cases and three deaths. Seven more deaths were included in Thursday’s revised figures, pushing the total to 10.
Those are the largest rises in confirmed cases and deaths in a 24-hour period since the weekend.
Emory Healthcare reported a death at one of its medical facilities but didn’t say where; the locations of the six other new deaths weren’t immediately available.
Georgia’ death rate now is 3.48 percent. The first three deaths were a 67-year-old man at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, and a 69-year-old woman and a 42-year-old woman, both of whom were hospitalized in Albany.
Georgia DPH said all three had other medical conditions, but Thursday’s update didn’t provide any information about the circumstances behind the newly reported deaths.
Fulton has 66 Coronavirus cases, the highest for a county in Georgia, followed by Cobb. Bartow has 26 cases, 22 are in DeKalb, 20 in Dougherty (Albany), 16 in Cherokee and 12 in Gwinnett.
The number of Georgians tested for Coronavirus is 1,831, and Georgia DPH was expanding testing to health care providers, first responders and those at high risk or who had shown symptoms of the disease and had been referred by physicians.
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