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Georgia Coronavirus Update: More Than 44,000 Cases, 1,907 Deaths
As of Wednesday at 1 p.m. there have been 44,421 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 7,600 hospitalized.
ATLANTA, GA — As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, the Georgia Department of Public Health counted 44,421 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 1,907 deaths. This is an increase of 691 new cases since Tuesday at 1 p.m., and 36 new deaths.
As of Wednesday at 1 p.m., there are 7,666 Georgians currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Georgia has seen a more than 40 percent drop in this statistic since May 1.
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More than 518,000 tests are reported to have been administered so far. More than 7,600 Georgians have been hospitalized for COVID-19, with more than 1,700 of them admitted to an intensive-care unit for it.
On Wednesday, during a visit to a Macon hospital, Gov. Brian Kemp said he’ll loosen the coronavirus restrictions as Georgians follow the guidelines, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Kemp said Georgia’s data “continue to look really good.”
The state recorded its first pediatric death from the coronavirus, the Georgia Department of Public Health confirmed on its coronavirus web page.
A 17-year-old male from Fulton County has died from the coronavirus. The Department of Public Health said he did have a chronic condition. No other information was confirmed, aside from the teen dying from coronavirus complications.
This is the 10th death in Georgia of people under the age of 30. The second youngest person to have died from the coronavirus was a 22-year-old woman from Muscogee County, also with a chronic condition.
In just three months, at least 100,000 Americans have now lost their lives to the coronavirus, Johns Hopkins University reported.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration privately increased its projections, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times. The Trump team predicted the daily death toll would reach about 3,000 people per day on June 1 — a 70 percent increase from the current number of about 1,750.
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