GA Coronavirus: More Than 600 New Cases Overnight, 18 Deaths

GEORGIA — Over the weekend, Georgia saw an additional 1,483 positive cases of coronavirus, and 45 new deaths from the virus since Friday at noon, the Georgia Department of Public Health confirmed.

As of noon on Monday, there have been 229 deaths, 7,314 confirmed cases, and 1,332 hospitalized from coronavirus. This is an increase of 18 deaths, 49 hospitalizations and 667 new cases since Sunday at noon.

The public health department said the significant increase in positive cases is in part due to additional laboratories reporting to the department and improvements in electronic reporting from other laboratories.

Kemp ordered a statewide shelter-in-place order that went into effect Friday. It's set to run through April 13. This date is in line with the state's public health emergency order. He also ordered Georgia public schools to stay closed for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year, and move to online learning.

Kemp has also added a community outreach committee to the state's coronavirus task force that will focus on meeting the different needs of residents across the state during the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, crisis. Kemp selected officials from both the public and private sectors to sit on the outreach committee.

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As of Sunday, Fulton County's 1,027 cases are the most of any Georgia locality. The next highest totals are 716 in Dougherty County, DeKalb with 579 cases, Cobb with 515 cases, Gwinnett with 443 cases, Clayton with 244, Bartow with 179, Henry with 178, Carroll with 163, Lee with 147, Cherokee with 133, Hall with 131, Chatham with 104 and Douglas with 102.

Of those counties, Dougherty has the most deaths in the state with 31. Fulton has had 28 deaths, Cobb had 25, Gwinnett and DeKalb had 10 each, Clayton and Lee each had nine, Clarke had eight, Bartow had seven, Houston had six, Cherokee and Douglas had five each, and Sumter and Fayette each had four.

Of Georgia's coronavirus cases, 60 percent are between ages 18 and 59, while those above the age of 60 make up 35 percent. People up to age 17 represent 1 percent of cases, and the remaining percentage of cases have unknown ages.

The oldest person to have died from coronavirus in Georgia was a 98-year-old man from Clarke County with underlying health conditions. The youngest person to die from the virus was a 29-year-old woman from Peach County. It is unknown if she had underlying medical conditions.

Commercial laboratories have conducted 28,777 tests, and 6,866 came back positive for COVID-19. Among the Georgia Department of Health's 2,497 completed tests, 448 came back positive.

More than 1.2 million COVID-19 cases are confirmed worldwide and more than 70,000 people have died, Johns Hopkins reported Monday morning. The U.S. has over 337,000 cases, the most of any country as of Monday.

There have been more than 3,000 deaths in New York City as of Monday, the most of any location in the United States.

President Donald Trump declared late last month that a major disaster exists in Georgia. With it, he ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the coronavirus pandemic beginning on Jan. 20, and continuing.

The White House said in a press release that "federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments, and certain private nonprofit organizations for emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, for all areas in the state of Georgia impacted by coronavirus."

Additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the state and warranted by the results of further assessments.

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