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UPDATE: A 67-year-old man who was hospitalized is Georgia’s first death from coronavirus, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday.
Also on Thursday, Kemp and Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., Georgia Department of Public Health commissioner, announced a daily status report page for confirmed COVID-19 cases in Georgia. The report updates every night at midnight to ensure accurate and regular information is provided to the public. The new tool can be found on the DPH website.
As of Friday evening, Georgia had 42 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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Georgia now has 31 confirmed or presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 in 12 counties, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health.
State officials say there are 12 confirmed cases and 19 presumptive positive cases.
The department is awaiting confirmatory testing from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on three new presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 the illness caused by the coronavirus. Two patients from DeKalb County are hospitalized. The third case involves a Lowndes County resident who also is hospitalized. The source of the infection is not known in any of the three cases.
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There are six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Georgia:
* A resident of Lee County who is hospitalized; the source of the infection is unknown.
* A resident of Cobb County who is hospitalized and has a history of travel outside the United States.
* A resident of Floyd County, who is hospitalized; the source of the infection is unknown.
* Three residents of Bartow County; two are hospitalized and the sources of their infections are unknown. The third patient is not hospitalized, and while the source of the infection is not known, this individual does share a connection with the individual from Floyd County.
Georgia’s confirmed cases are in these counties:
Fulton – 3
Floyd – 2
Polk – 1
Cobb – 2
Bartow – 3
Lee – 1
Presumed positive cases are in these counties:
Cobb – 6
Fulton – 3
Fayette – 1
Dekalb – 4
Gwinnett – 2
Cherokee – 1
Charlton – 1
Lowndes – 1