The death toll in Georgia as a result of CoVID-19 is now at 26, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health and the number of confirmed cases is now 800. This is the latest update at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 23, 2020. This update is now being given twice a day by the GDPH, at noon and at 7 p.m. each day.
Walton County remains an island with cases reported in all the surrounding counties, but still no official case reported in Walton County. The employee at Hitachi in Monroe who was identified Tuesday is not a resident of Walton County There is no official information on the cases marked as “unknown.”
At this time, Georgia has dropped to 11th in the United States for the number of confirmed cases and in the top five for the number of deaths. It is important that everybody heeds the guidance on how to slow the spread. However, the number of cases reported is directly reflective of the number of tests that are now being done. More than 5,000 tests have been conducted with almost 4,000 of them in commercial laboratories.
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