GA Coronavirus Cases Rise Past 10,000, Deaths Nearing 400

GEORGIA — As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases swells past 10,000, Gov. Brian Kemp has extended the statewide shelter-in-place order through the end of the month.

Kemp first ordered a shelter in place for April 3 through April 13. The news of the extension was shared hours after the governor renewed a public health emergency declaration. Under state law, the governor can renew the emergency, which was otherwise set to expire on April 13.

As of Thursday at noon, there have been 10,566 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Georgia, 2,159 hospitalizations and 379 deaths. This is an increase of 1,410 cases, 260 hospitalizations and 21 new deaths since Wednesday at noon.

According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, the percent of people who have the coronavirus that have been hospitalized is 20.43 percent, and deaths make up 3.59 percent of total confirmed cases in the state.

As of Thursday at noon, Fulton County's 1,276 cases are the most of any Georgia locality. The next highest totals are 1,020 in Dougherty County, DeKalb with 742 cases, Cobb with 629 cases, Gwinnett with 603 cases, Clayton with 297, Hall with 238, Henry with 225, Lee with 212, Bartow with 196, Sumter with 190, Carroll with 183, Cherokee with 159, Chatham with 131, Douglas with 127, Mitchell with 116, Early with 105, Forsyth with 104, and Houston with 103.

Of those counties, Dougherty has the most deaths in the state with 62. Fulton has had 45 deaths, Cobb had 29, Gwinnett had 17, Lee and Mitchell each had 14, Bartow had 12, and Clayton had 11.

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Kemp's new executive order also prevents people from staying in short-term vacation rentals beginning Thursday.

The order calls for senior care facilities to prohibit most visitors, too. Residents will now have to eat in their rooms. There will also be mandatory screenings for fevers and respiratory issues, Kemp said.

A thousand additional National Guard members will also be deployed.

The public health emergency extension comes after Georgia saw its largest single-day increase in deaths due to coronavirus on Tuesday, when numbers released by the Georgia Department of Public Health at noon showed 329 deaths, an increase of 100 from Monday at noon.

Of Georgia's coronavirus cases, 60 percent are between ages 18 and 59, while those above the age of 60 make up 35 percent.

The oldest person to have died from coronavirus in Georgia was a 100-year-old woman from Greene County. It is unknown if she had underlying medical 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 38,124 tests, and 10,050 came back positive for COVID-19. Among the Georgia Department of Health's 2,961 completed tests, 516 came back positive.

More than 1.5 million COVID-19 cases are confirmed worldwide and more than 89,000 people have died, Johns Hopkins reported Thursday morning. The U.S. has over 432,000 cases, the most of any country as of Thursday, with more than 14,000 deaths.

Worldwide, 340,000 people have recovered from coronavirus. In the United States, 24,000 have recovered as of Thursday morning.

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