3rd Highest GA Daily Death Toll From Coronavirus Set Tuesday

GEORGIA — Georgia recorded its third highest 24-hour death tool from the coronavirus on Tuesday after 77 people died, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. The highest day was April 20 when 86 people died.

As of 3 p.m. Wednesday, 53,980 Georgians have been confirmed to have the coronavirus, with 2,329 of them dying from it. There have been nearly 9,000 people hospitalized, with almost 2,000 of them in the ICU. No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

Georgia has tested 671,249 people so far, including both viral and antibody testing, with just over 55,000 testing positive, or 8.2 percent.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta continue to have the highest number of cases, with Fulton County in first with 4,989 confirmed positives. Gwinnett is second with 4,808, DeKalb is third with 4,186, Cobb is fourth with 3,370 and Hall is fifth with 2,686. Today's statistics also identify 1,160 cases of COVID-19 as from "unknown" counties, with 2,515 cases counted as "Non-Georgia."

Fulton County reports the most deaths, with 273, followed by Cobb County, with 210. Dougherty County in southwest Georgia, site of the state's earliest hotspot, is third with 150 deaths. Rounding out the top five counties are Gwinnett in fourth with 142 deaths and DeKalb in fifth with 136 deaths.

Globally, more than 7 million cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, with 413,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins. In the U.S., there have been nearly 2 million cases, with 112,000 deaths confirmed as of Wednesday. However, 3 million people have recovered from the coronavirus globally, and 524,000 in the U.S.

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