New Coronavirus Cases Below 1,000 A Day In Alabama Last 2 Weeks

MONTGOMERY, AL — After a spike in new reported COVID-19 cases in Alabama at the beginning of the month, the Alabama Department of Public Health reported Friday that the state is now below 1,000 new cases per day over the last two weeks.

The state has confirmed 13,613 new cases of the virus over the last 14 days, bringing daily average to 972 cases. The state has confirmed 2,496 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March.

The spike seen earlier in the month may not have been an indication of any sort of trend, as the ADPH said Monday that in some instances, ADPH was not aware of some of the testing laboratories, and these labs were not familiar with mandatory reporting of notifiable diseases.

"We had an entity transmit data on October 2 which increased our daily number of cases for October 2 and our cumulative total for our October 3 dashboard update," the ADPH said. Hence, many of the newly reported cases last week could have been cases from several weeks ago.

Since March, 1,196,452 diagnostic COVID-19 tests have been administered, with 143,900 of those tests coming back positive. The ADPH says 71,240 patients are presumed to have recovered from the virus.

Over the last 14 days, the new cases reported have been concentrated primarily in counties bordering Georgia and Florida.

Over the last two weeks, the counties reporting the highest rate of cases (per 100,000 people):

• Marengo County: 721 cases per 100,000 people
• Geneva County: 586 cases per 100,000 people
• Houston County: 546 cases per 100,000 people
• Henry County: 511 cases per 100,000 people
• Dekalb County: 508 cases per 100,000 people
• Clarke COunty: 504 cases per 100,000 people
• Jackson County: 413 cases per 100,000 people
• Cleburne County: 409 cases per 100,000 people
• Tuscaloosa County: 390 cases per 100,000 people
• Hale County: 382 cases per 100,000 people

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