Coronavirus
Another Jump in COVID-19 Cases Reported Saturday
Alabama reported its largest number of COVID-19 cases since last weekend Saturday, with three counties accounting for more than a third of the 1,786 new cases.
The new 24-hour report by the Alabama Department of Public Health brought the number of cases of the coronavirus to 96,613, plus 3,560 others listed as probable COVID-19. The daily tally included 20 deaths, raising the total number for the state to 1,694, plus 61 shown as probable.
Mobile County reported 271 cases, Jefferson County 226 and Clarke County 166. Clarke County is in southwest Alabama, just north of the Mobile area.
Saturday’s report, which was delayed because of technical problems at the Health Department reflected the highest number of new cases since the total of 2,031 on Sunday, Aug. 2.
The list of counties with numbers of cases, individuals tested and deaths.
| Autauga | 1086 | 7262 | 21 |
| Baldwin | 3502 | 30093 | 24 |
| Barbour | 573 | 3214 | 5 |
| Bibb | 426 | 3494 | 5 |
| Blount | 788 | 6308 | 4 |
| Bullock | 463 | 1846 | 11 |
| Butler | 758 | 3224 | 36 |
| Calhoun | 1761 | 15074 | 13 |
| Chambers | 840 | 4902 | 38 |
| Cherokee | 270 | 2523 | 7 |
| Chilton | 788 | 5357 | 6 |
| Choctaw | 281 | 1024 | 12 |
| Clarke | 662 | 3921 | 9 |
| Clay | 252 | 1887 | 5 |
| Cleburne | 126 | 1089 | 1 |
| Coffee | 756 | 6840 | 6 |
| Colbert | 1171 | 8051 | 13 |
| Conecuh | 388 | 1732 | 10 |
| Coosa | 101 | 870 | 2 |
| Covington | 734 | 5397 | 20 |
| Crenshaw | 314 | 1899 | 3 |
| Cullman | 1220 | 11549 | 12 |
| Dale | 827 | 5818 | 23 |
| Dallas | 1318 | 7654 | 23 |
| DeKalb | 1798 | 10136 | 13 |
| Elmore | 1715 | 11959 | 38 |
| Escambia | 1075 | 5898 | 16 |
| Etowah | 2104 | 16943 | 31 |
| Fayette | 204 | 2095 | 5 |
| Franklin | 1270 | 5603 | 20 |
| Geneva | 257 | 2905 | 0 |
| Greene | 250 | 1432 | 11 |
| Hale | 473 | 3319 | 26 |
| Henry | 259 | 2149 | 3 |
| Houston | 1386 | 14732 | 12 |
| Jackson | 968 | 9176 | 4 |
| Jefferson | 12969 | 129194 | 243 |
| Lamar | 220 | 1896 | 2 |
| Lauderdale | 1157 | 11741 | 17 |
| Lawrence | 348 | 2432 | 1 |
| Lee | 2660 | 20402 | 45 |
| Limestone | 1318 | 10266 | 13 |
| Lowndes | 571 | 1844 | 24 |
| Macon | 334 | 2281 | 14 |
| Madison | 5314 | 58113 | 33 |
| Marengo | 553 | 3899 | 15 |
| Marion | 570 | 3803 | 24 |
| Marshall | 3130 | 17840 | 35 |
| Mobile | 9836 | 66508 | 206 |
| Monroe | 419 | 3277 | 4 |
| Montgomery | 6609 | 35289 | 148 |
| Morgan | 2369 | 17222 | 18 |
| Perry | 440 | 2582 | 4 |
| Pickens | 392 | 2839 | 9 |
| Pike | 703 | 5217 | 7 |
| Randolph | 396 | 2653 | 10 |
| Russell | 1358 | 7919 | 2 |
| Shelby | 3260 | 33788 | 35 |
| St. Clair | 1328 | 13619 | 17 |
| Sumter | 360 | 1778 | 18 |
| Talladega | 1009 | 11310 | 13 |
| Tallapoosa | 854 | 7203 | 79 |
| Tuscaloosa | 4190 | 36085 | 73 |
| Unknown or Out of State | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| Walker | 1520 | 10908 | 64 |
| Washington | 386 | 2169 | 12 |
| Wilcox | 426 | 2004 | 10 |
| Winston | 450 | 3665 | 11 |
