Coronavirus

4,232 New Cases of COVID-19, 89 Deaths Reported Thursday

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The Alabama Department of Public Health reported 4,232 new cases of COVID-19 and 89 deaths in its daily update on Thursday.

The state has recorded 338,801 cases of the coronavirus and 4,676 deaths from the disease since the pandemic began in March.

The agency has reported an average of 4,067 new cases a day over the past week. The average was 1,241 a day on Nov. 1 and 2,291 on Dec. 1.

A total of 31,651 people have been hospitalized for COVID-19, including 2,535 who were in hospitals across the state on Wednesday.

Jefferson County reported 763 new cases and 28 deaths in the Christmas eve report. The state’s most populous county’s overall totals are 48,517 cases and 658 deaths. Mobile County was second in both categories with 323 new cases and 13 deaths, raising its totals to 24,325 and 481, respectively.

The list of counties with numbers of cases, individuals tested and deaths.

Autauga 3942 20228 46
Baldwin 12521 80075 151
Barbour 1390 8978 32
Bibb 1711 10767 42
Blount 4405 18124 58
Bullock 770 3754 20
Butler 1434 6475 45
Calhoun 9071 46864 148
Chambers 2191 13106 61
Cherokee 1343 6961 23
Chilton 2790 13254 53
Choctaw 483 2169 22
Clarke 2255 10715 25
Clay 1088 5125 34
Cleburne 986 4166 16
Coffee 3353 20188 38
Colbert 4357 21747 59
Conecuh 819 3614 17
Coosa 475 2485 7
Covington 2781 13403 38
Crenshaw 887 4509 36
Cullman 6650 32288 70
Dale 3133 20236 63
Dallas 2669 13947 39
DeKalb 6668 25329 58
Elmore 5850 34119 80
Escambia 2492 11785 34
Etowah 9477 44929 91
Fayette 1361 6462 19
Franklin 3106 12283 36
Geneva 1562 9623 18
Greene 618 3302 20
Hale 1360 7435 33
Henry 1140 6866 8
Houston 6809 50504 63
Jackson 4834 24587 34
Jefferson 48517 325217 658
Lamar 997 4741 15
Lauderdale 5996 32995 68
Lawrence 1907 7547 42
Lee 9715 67483 74
Limestone 6369 29179 55
Lowndes 913 3526 32
Macon 951 5943 30
Madison 20540 150947 179
Marengo 1712 9118 26
Marion 1952 9697 43
Marshall 8766 36934 84
Mobile 24325 147686 481
Monroe 1090 6573 11
Montgomery 15321 81672 271
Morgan 9927 42928 87
Perry 818 4019 9
Pickens 1630 8261 26
Pike 1889 11769 23
Randolph 1200 6582 30
Russell 2641 15009 6
St. Clair 6077 33744 71
Shelby 14635 92550 103
Sumter 802 3955 24
Talladega 4852 27486 74
Tallapoosa 2250 17133 98
Tuscaloosa 17473 112121 216
Walker 4933 24042 133
Washington 1138 5367 24
Wilcox 847 3892 19
Winston 1837 8430 27