Georgia reports almost 25,000 coronavirus cases on ‘record testing day’

The Georgia Department of Public Health at 7 p.m. Tuesday confirmed 24,884 cases of COVID-19 in the state, up by 333 from the last update at noon Tuesday.

Statewide, 1,036 people have now died from the novel coronavirus, an increase of 16 since noon.

The Georgia Public Health Laboratory and private labs have conducted a total of 140,020 COVID-19 tests.

The state health department reports 4,896 people have been hospitalized due to the virus.

State health officials have not provided a breakdown of the residents tested for COVID-19 in each county. The state is also not tracking the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19.

For 615 cases, the state is reporting the counties as “unknown.” The person may be homeless or medical professionals may not have entered the person’s county of residence into the state’s electronic database, health officials have previously said.

The state is now reporting the number of cases per 100,000 county residents and hospitalizations by county.

Gov. Brian Kemp announced in a press release that Tuesday was a record testing day in the state of Georgia with nearly 13,000 tests administered for COVID-19.

“Two weeks ago, I told Georgians we were not testing enough in our state and that we would make every effort to boost testing capacity,” said Kemp in the release. “It is clear we are making significant progress.”

Breakdown by County

This story was originally published April 28, 2020 at 12:21 PM.