Coronavirus
Alabama Reports Highest Number of New Cases of COVID-19 in More Than a Week
Alabama reversed a decline in the number of new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, recording 1,220 cases to raise its total for the pandemic to 105,715. There were 12 deaths in the 24-hour period covered by the Alabama Department of Public Health’s report, bringing the total to 1,867.
Another 4,409 cases and 70 deaths were listed as probably from the coronavirus.
The report marked the highest daily number of new cases since 1,352 were reported on Aug. 10. And it ended a seven-day decline in the rolling daily average for a one-week period. That figure stood at 841 cases a day after falling every day from 1,352 on Aug. 10 to 744 on Monday.
Jefferson County led the state with 139 cases, increasing its total to 14,198. No other county had a triple-digit increase.
The list of counties with number of confirmed cases and deaths.
| Autauga | 1235 | 22 | |
| Baldwin | 3906 | 30 | |
| Barbour | 606 | 6 | |
| Bibb | 476 | 5 | |
| Blount | 887 | 5 | |
| Bullock | 504 | 13 | |
| Butler | 796 | 36 | |
| Calhoun | 1982 | 23 | |
| Chambers | 859 | 38 | |
| Cherokee | 313 | 8 | |
| Chilton | 880 | 9 | |
| Choctaw | 297 | 12 | |
| Clarke | 839 | 10 | |
| Clay | 310 | 5 | |
| Cleburne | 148 | 1 | |
| Coffee | 847 | 6 | |
| Colbert | 1300 | 18 | |
| Conecuh | 408 | 10 | |
| Coosa | 106 | 3 | |
| Covington | 786 | 22 | |
| Crenshaw | 353 | 9 | |
| Cullman | 1303 | 12 | |
| Dale | 890 | 30 | |
| Dallas | 1368 | 25 | |
| DeKalb | 1932 | 14 | |
| Elmore | 1837 | 40 | |
| Escambia | 1126 | 17 | |
| Etowah | 2336 | 36 | |
| Fayette | 247 | 6 | |
| Franklin | 1373 | 22 | |
| Geneva | 297 | 2 | |
| Greene | 261 | 13 | |
| Hale | 498 | 26 | |
| Henry | 278 | 3 | |
| Houston | 1540 | 13 | |
| Jackson | 1156 | 5 | |
| Jefferson | 14198 | 264 | |
| Lamar | 247 | 2 | |
| Lauderdale | 1269 | 21 | |
| Lawrence | 377 | 3 | |
| Lee | 2861 | 47 | |
| Limestone | 1473 | 13 | |
| Lowndes | 585 | 24 | |
| Macon | 355 | 15 | |
| Madison | 5773 | 38 | |
| Marengo | 591 | 17 | |
| Marion | 619 | 27 | |
| Marshall | 3317 | 38 | |
| Mobile | 11138 | 229 | |
| Monroe | 434 | 6 | |
| Montgomery | 7226 | 153 | |
| Morgan | 2555 | 22 | |
| Perry | 459 | 4 | |
| Pickens | 443 | 10 | |
| Pike | 731 | 7 | |
| Randolph | 416 | 11 | |
| Russell | 1453 | 2 | |
| Shelby | 3538 | 38 | |
| St. Clair | 1442 | 22 | |
| Sumter | 379 | 19 | |
| Talladega | 1170 | 15 | |
| Tallapoosa | 902 | 79 | |
| Tuscaloosa | 4524 | 85 | |
| Unknown or Out of State | N/A | N/A | |
| Walker | 1645 | 67 | |
| Washington | 475 | 13 | |
| Wilcox | 456 | 10 | |
| Winston | 484 | 11 |
