Coronavirus

Alabama COVID-19 Numbers: 935 Confirmed Cases, 6 Deaths

Illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Source: CDC.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose by more than 100 to 935 today, the Alabama Public Health Department reported.  Six deaths from the virus have been confirmed by state health officials.

The coronavirus has now been reported in 59 of the state’s 67 counties. The official death count stood at six, but more deaths have been reported by hospitals; the state has a process to verify the virus was to blame before including deaths in the official numbers.

The Birmingham area continued to be the hot spot, with 254 cases in Jefferson County and 85 in Shelby County, according to the Health Department. Madison County also reported 93 cases.

Here is the full list of counties’ confirmed cases:

Autauga (7)

Baldwin (19)

Bibb (2)

Blount (5)

Bullock (3)

Butler (1)

Calhoun (9)

Chambers (34)

Cherokee (2)

Chilton (10)

Choctaw (2)

Clay (2)

Cleburne (5)

Colbert (4)

Coosa (3)

Covington (2)

Crenshaw (1)

Cullman (8)

Dallas (2)

DeKalb (4)

Elmore (14)

Escambia (1)

Etowah (6)

Fayette (1)

Franklin (3)

Greene (3)

Hale (1)

Houston (10)

Jackson (6)

Jefferson (254)

Lamar (1)

Lauderdale (13)

Lawrence (3)

Lee (72)

Limestone (20)

Lowndes (1)

Macon (1)

Madison (93)

Marengo (4)

Marion (9)

Marshall (7)

Mobile (45)

Monroe (1)

Montgomery (29)

Morgan (19)

Pickens (3)

Pike (4)

Randolph (2)

Russell (1)

St. Clair (14)

Shelby (85)

Sumter (1)

Talladega (6)

Tallapoosa (12)

Tuscaloosa (27)

Walker (31)

Washington (3)

Wilcox (2)

Winston (2)