Coronavirus

Montgomery, Walker Counties Lead State in New Cases; Alabama Total Hits 17,301

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On Friday, 501 more people in Alabama tested positive for coronavirus and 19 people died.

The update brought the total of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the state to 17,301 as of midnight Friday. A total of 610 people have died since the pandemic hit Alabama in mid-March, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.

Almost a third of those cases — 5,668 — have been confirmed in the past 14 days. But slightly more than a third of the tests have been conducted in the past 14 days, as well. The state has conducted 208,687 tests for COVID-19, 77,305 of them in the past two weeks.

Counties

Montgomery County had the biggest increase in cases added Friday – 49. The county’s cases have increased drastically in the past couple of weeks and now total 1,590. Four more people died in Montgomery on Friday, bringing the death toll there to 38.

Tuscaloosa County was next, adding 42 cases to bring its total to 720. One person died in that county, for a total of 14 deaths.

Mobile County added 38 cases Friday, for a total of 2,162, the most of any county in the state. Two more died there Friday, bringing the death total to 114.

Jefferson County added 32 cases Friday, bringing its total to 1,744, second highest in the state. Two more people in the county died, bringing the total deaths to 102.

Walker County, where cases also have been on the rise recently, added 31 more cases Friday, bringing its total to 330. One person died Friday; one other person previously had died.

Franklin County added 26 cases Friday, bringing its total to 540. Deaths remained stable at seven.

Many other counties had single-digit increases and some had increases in the teens.

Here is the full list of counties with number of cases, number of tests for the disease and deaths:

 

Autauga 212 2068 3
Baldwin 282 7562 9
Barbour 147 778 1
Bibb 71 1296 1
Blount 60 1505 1
Bullock 201 587 4
Butler 396 1519 16
Calhoun 153 3485 3
Chambers 352 1511 24
Cherokee 36 911 3
Chilton 99 1487 1
Choctaw 149 452 8
Clarke 134 1138 2
Clay 27 459 2
Cleburne 14 226 1
Coffee 226 1707 1
Colbert 165 2396 2
Conecuh 38 340 1
Coosa 38 280 1
Covington 77 1106 1
Crenshaw 73 715 3
Cullman 114 3042 0
Dale 106 1084 0
Dallas 255 1986 3
DeKalb 243 1846 3
Elmore 323 3050 7
Escambia 57 1140 3
Etowah 247 4251 11
Fayette 13 596 0
Franklin 540 2023 7
Geneva 39 600 0
Greene 93 491 4
Hale 157 1124 8
Henry 73 501 2
Houston 204 3414 4
Jackson 76 2311 2
Jefferson 1744 37673 102
Lamar 23 484 0
Lauderdale 156 3640 2
Lawrence 48 705 0
Lee 536 6233 32
Limestone 92 2212 0
Lowndes 227 613 11
Macon 72 693 3
Madison 324 15077 4
Marengo 160 1516 6
Marion 120 1230 11
Marshall 681 5566 9
Mobile 2162 20356 114
Monroe 36 542 2
Montgomery 1590 9194 38
Morgan 244 3780 1
Perry 35 745 0
Pickens 109 936 4
Pike 191 1508 0
Randolph 125 929 7
Russell 162 1463 0
Shelby 497 9009 19
St. Clair 118 3091 1
Sumter 216 977 6
Talladega 106 2874 3
Tallapoosa 422 2528 64
Tuscaloosa 720 10536 14
Unknown or Out of State N/A 0 N/A
Walker 330 3271 2
Washington 67 566 6
Wilcox 141 550 7
Winston 87 1203 0
Cases:
17031
Tested:
208687
Deaths:
610