Tennessee reports biggest daily jump in positive coronavirus tests

Staff photo by Troy Stolt / A health worker swabs a Marion County resident for coronavirus at a mobile testing location, located at Chattanooga State Community College's Kimball Site on Saturday, April 18, 2020 in Kimball, Tenn. Health workers from the Marion County Health Department and the Tennessee Department of Health work with members of the Tennessee National Guard worked together to provide testing at the site. Staff photo by Troy Stolt / A health worker swabs a Marion County resident for coronavirus at a mobile testing location, located at Chattanooga State Community College's Kimball Site on Saturday, April 18, 2020 in Kimball, Tenn. Health workers from the Marion County Health Department and the Tennessee Department of Health work with members of the Tennessee National Guard worked together to provide testing at the site.

By Associated Press June 26, 2020 2 min read

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee health officials on Friday again reported the biggest one-day jump in people testing positive for COVID-19, the second time that’s happened within a week.

The state Health Department said in its daily report that more than 1,400 people have newly tested positive. That tops the one-day high total of nearly 1,200 new confirmed cases last Friday.

The previous high came in May, when a slew of results came in from prisoners at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, where nearly 1,300 inmates and 50 workers have tested positive.

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The growth comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections per day in the U.S. surged to an all-time high of 40,000.