Alabama added 508 cases of COVID-19 to its tabulation on Memorial Day, and 15 more people died.

The additions brought total cases to 14,986 and total deaths to 566.

Alabama started reopening on May 1 although the state was not seeing a sustained downward trend in cases. First, stores and businesses were allowed to reopen with social distancing requirements.

On May 11, restaurants, bars, athletic facilities and close-contact service providers such as nail salons and barber shops were allowed to reopen. The state also lifted the limits on the number of people who could gather, though it still requires people to maintain social distancing of six feet.

As of Friday at 5 p.m., the state allowed entertainment venues to reopen under social distancing requirements. In Jefferson County, the health officer extended the ban on entertainment venues opening until June 6. The city of Birmingham also is requiring people to wear face masks in public through May 29, but that provision does not apply elsewhere in Alabama.

The state order does leave senior centers closed to regular programming and requires nursing homes and assisted living centers to restrict visitors.

As the state has reopened, cases have risen. Two weeks ago, the seven-day average number of new cases each day was less than 300.

 

County Increases

Mobile County, which leads the state in cases, topped 2,000 Monday, with a total of 2,033 cases and 111 deaths.

Jefferson County follows with 1,630 cases and 91 deaths. Montgomery County, which recently has become a hot spot for the disease, reported 88 more cases Monday for a total of 1,274 and 33 cases.

Also in the Birmingham-Hoover metro area: Shelby County has a total of 447 cases and 19 deaths; Walker County has 239 cases and one death; St. Clair has 104 cases and one death; Talladega 91 cases and two deaths; Chilton County has 87 cases and one death; Cullman County has 78 cases and zero deaths; Bibb County has 59 cases and one death; Blount County has 49 cases and one death; and Coosa County has 34 cases and one death.

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

Autauga					168	1875	3
Baldwin					274	7175	9
Barbour					113	724	1
Bibb					59	1225	1
Blount					49	1358	1
Bullock					133	468	3
Butler					359	1360	12
Calhoun					146	3280	3
Chambers					337	1409	24
Cherokee					33	857	2
Chilton					87	1242	1
Choctaw					144	432	4
Clarke					109	1020	2
Clay					27	442	2
Cleburne					13	212	1
Coffee					206	1668	1
Colbert					142	2370	2
Conecuh					28	299	1
Coosa					34	264	1
Covington					67	1048	1
Crenshaw					60	667	2
Cullman					78	2439	0
Dale					85	1024	0
Dallas					206	1783	3
DeKalb					226	1720	3
Elmore					270	2759	7
Escambia					43	1054	3
Etowah					238	3965	11
Fayette					11	531	0
Franklin					467	1906	6
Geneva					35	589	0
Greene					91	462	4
Hale					132	811	4
Henry					64	476	2
Houston					172	3182	4
Jackson					71	2222	2
Jefferson					1630	34586	91
Lamar					20	454	0
Lauderdale					135	3612	2
Lawrence					43	623	0
Lee					510	5719	32
Limestone					77	2133	0
Lowndes					193	552	10
Macon					62	636	2
Madison					302	14303	4
Marengo					141	1417	6
Marion					114	1369	10
Marshall					650	5024	9
Mobile					2033	19458	111
Monroe					33	506	2
Montgomery					1274	8234	33
Morgan					176	3408	1
Perry					35	634	0
Pickens					93	890	4
Pike					145	1346	0
Randolph					124	897	7
Russell					137	1318	0
Shelby					447	8338	19
St. Clair					104	2875	1
Sumter					193	951	6
Talladega					91	2725	2
Tallapoosa					400	2670	63
Tuscaloosa					558	8707	12
Unknown or Out of State					N/A	0	N/A
Walker					239	2646	1
Washington					65	522	5
Wilcox					118	505	7
Winston					67	1108	0
	Cases: 14986	Tested: 192484	Deaths: 566