The number of new cases of COVID-19 in Alabama dropped Tuesday to 536, the lowest daily count in more than seven weeks.

Despite the lower number of cases, the Alabama Department of Public Health’s daily report showed a total of 48 deaths for the latest 24-hour period, the second-highest daily figure since the pandemic began in mid-March. There were 57 deaths listed on July 22.

The Health Department’s COVID Dashboard lists a total of 99,926 confirmed cases and 1,781 deaths. An additional 3,630 cases and 64 deaths are presumed to have been related to the disease.

Tuesday’s total was the lowest since a count of 359 on June 28.

Alabama’s rolling average for cases of the coronavirus stood at 1,291 a day over the past week, a drop of 221 since Tuesday of last week.

Jefferson County was the only county in the state reporting a triple-digit increase on Tuesday, with 108 cases to rase its total to 13,366.

Mobile County listed five deaths, while adjoining Baldwin County had four.

The list of counties with number of confirmed cases,