Alabama added 498 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, taking the state’s total since the pandemic began to 16,530. In all, 591 people have died from the disease, eight of them on Thursday.

The number of new cases for Thursday is greater than the seven-day average of daily cases for the past week, which was 425.71. But it is lower than the number of new cases logged several days last week. In the past nine days, the state has had two record-breaking days for new cases, including a jump of 664 on Tuesday.

Almost a third of the total cases in Alabama have been diagnosed in the past two weeks, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health’s COVID-10 dashboard.

County Cases

Some counties have contributed more cases to the state’s total than others. At the top of that list is Mobile, which had 2,124 cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Thursday and 112 deaths from the disease. Cases there rose by 39 cases Thursday.

Jefferson County has the second most cases in the state, with 1,712, also an increase of 39 from Wednesday. Three people died here Thursday, bringing the county’s total deaths to 100.

The increase in Montgomery County was much larger, with 95 new COVID-19-positive test results reported there Thursday at about midnight. Montgomery County is nearing Jefferson County’s count, with 1,514 cases. Thirty-four people have died of the disease there.

Marshall County is next in the case counts, with 668 cases and nine deaths. Tuscaloosa County, which recently has had a jump in COVID-19 cases, add 49 cases and one death to its tally Thursday, for a total of 678 cases and 13 deaths.

Two other counties have more than 500 cases each – Franklin and Lee. Lee County had 533 cases Thursday, up seven from the day before, and held steady with deaths at 32. Franklin had accumulated 514 cases as of Thursday and seven deaths, up 16 cases and one death from the day before.

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

Autauga					205	2026	3
Baldwin					281	7611	9
Barbour					132	743	1
Bibb					71	1269	1
Blount					58	1454	1
Bullock					183	516	3
Butler					392	1502	13
Calhoun					152	3420	3
Chambers					349	1475	24
Cherokee					34	905	2
Chilton					97	1470	1
Choctaw					148	446	8
Clarke					129	1090	2
Clay					27	453	2
Cleburne					13	219	1
Coffee					224	1757	1
Colbert					161	2452	2
Conecuh					35	334	1
Coosa					35	274	1
Covington					77	1092	1
Crenshaw					72	707	2
Cullman					96	2632	0
Dale					99	1082	0
Dallas					244	1904	3
DeKalb					241	1802	3
Elmore					313	2924	7
Escambia					49	1120	3
Etowah					244	4157	11
Fayette					13	558	0
Franklin					514	1979	7
Geneva					40	605	0
Greene					92	480	4
Hale					151	855	7
Henry					71	494	2
Houston					188	3381	4
Jackson					75	2344	2
Jefferson					1712	36661	100
Lamar					21	489	0
Lauderdale					153	3770	2
Lawrence					46	657	0
Lee					533	6100	32
Limestone					87	2195	0
Lowndes					222	594	10
Macon					71	663	2
Madison					318	15056	4
Marengo					155	1553	6
Marion					119	1399	11
Marshall					668	5196	9
Mobile					2124	20504	112
Monroe					35	536	2
Montgomery					1541	9028	34
Morgan					231	3629	1
Perry					35	692	0
Pickens					101	931	4
Pike					179	1464	0
Randolph					125	919	7
Russell					159	1465	0
Shelby					484	8791	19
St. Clair					116	3032	1
Sumter					213	986	6
Talladega					100	2813	3
Tallapoosa					418	2760	64
Tuscaloosa					678	9608	13
Unknown or Out of State					N/A	0	N/A
Walker					299	3070	1
Washington					66	551	6
Wilcox					134	531	7
Winston					82	1174	0
	Cases: 16530	Tested: 204349	Deaths: 591