Here’s Friday’s daily status report from the Georgia Department of Public Health (it’s updated twice daily at 12 and 7 p.m.), and it bears out what Gov. Brian Kemp said Thursday: The number of Coronavirus cases is going to continue to jump.
UPDATED, 7:50 P.M.: The number of Georgia cases is now 480, with 14 deaths; Cobb’s total is 48 cases and one death.
On Friday afternoon that number was 430, up from 287 on Thursday, and the number of deaths rose by three, from 10 to 13 in a 24-hour period.
Cobb County has the second-largest number of cases in Georgia. Friday’s total was 45, up from 37 on Thursday.
Another 500 or so test results statewide are part of those figures, according to DPH: 2,386 as of noon Friday, compared to 1,861.
Readers have been asking where specifically in counties these cases are taking place, but the DPH numbers aren’t that granular. As soon as we get more information like that, we’ll pass that along.
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