Coronavirus
COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Alabama Continue to Decline
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is continuing to decline, the Alabama Department of Public Health reported Sunday.
There were 746 people in Alabama hospitals on Saturday for treatment of the disease, the agency said in its daily coronavirus update. That is down from 775 a week earlier, 829 two weeks ago and 1,160 on Aug. 20.
The COVID-19 Dashboard showed 677 new confirmed cases of the disease on Sunday, pushing the state’s total to 130,651 since the first case was reported on March 13. Another 14,311 cases were listed as probable, for a total of 144,962. The daily average number of new cases for the past week was 694, down from an average of 855 one month ago.
The Health Department defines probable cases as patients who have had close contact with a someone with a confirmed case, have symptoms of COVID-19 and have not been tested for the disease. The definition also applies to the growing number of people who have been given an antigen test and reported positive.
The agency reported no new deaths for the latest 24-hour period. The total remained at 2,290 confirmed deaths, plus 147 listed as probable for a total of 2,437.
Jefferson County listed 95 confirmed new cases, the most in the state, to push its total to 18,208.
The list of counties with numbers of confirmed cases, individuals tested and confirmed deaths.
Autauga | 1522 | 11434 | 23 |
Baldwin | 4880 | 44079 | 45 |
Barbour | 643 | 4836 | 7 |
Bibb | 602 | 5095 | 6 |
Blount | 1196 | 9991 | 14 |
Bullock | 564 | 2612 | 13 |
Butler | 874 | 4337 | 37 |
Calhoun | 2987 | 25694 | 32 |
Chambers | 878 | 7733 | 40 |
Cherokee | 432 | 4236 | 12 |
Chilton | 1311 | 8112 | 22 |
Choctaw | 335 | 1490 | 12 |
Clarke | 939 | 5950 | 15 |
Clay | 490 | 3015 | 7 |
Cleburne | 310 | 1957 | 6 |
Coffee | 1080 | 11917 | 5 |
Colbert | 1571 | 11037 | 25 |
Conecuh | 453 | 2327 | 11 |
Coosa | 123 | 1444 | 3 |
Covington | 855 | 8032 | 25 |
Crenshaw | 428 | 2896 | 30 |
Cullman | 1592 | 17022 | 15 |
Dale | 1142 | 10760 | 43 |
Dallas | 1489 | 9937 | 25 |
DeKalb | 2224 | 14159 | 17 |
Elmore | 2308 | 18352 | 44 |
Escambia | 1322 | 7793 | 24 |
Etowah | 2990 | 25725 | 44 |
Fayette | 377 | 3416 | 9 |
Franklin | 1709 | 7822 | 28 |
Geneva | 459 | 5047 | 3 |
Greene | 285 | 1928 | 14 |
Hale | 570 | 4400 | 27 |
Henry | 378 | 3822 | 3 |
Houston | 2085 | 28627 | 15 |
Jackson | 1431 | 13470 | 9 |
Jefferson | 18208 | 188286 | 328 |
Lamar | 318 | 2839 | 2 |
Lauderdale | 1604 | 16825 | 31 |
Lawrence | 566 | 3747 | 20 |
Lee | 3756 | 43453 | 49 |
Limestone | 1926 | 16128 | 18 |
Lowndes | 618 | 2458 | 25 |
Macon | 427 | 3437 | 17 |
Madison | 7220 | 84612 | 67 |
Marengo | 666 | 5055 | 18 |
Marion | 829 | 5504 | 27 |
Marshall | 3623 | 22966 | 42 |
Mobile | 12684 | 94534 | 283 |
Monroe | 448 | 4265 | 7 |
Montgomery | 8371 | 49688 | 169 |
Morgan | 3075 | 23544 | 25 |
Perry | 490 | 2978 | 6 |
Pickens | 586 | 4616 | 13 |
Pike | 910 | 8241 | 8 |
Randolph | 536 | 4013 | 11 |
Russell | 1606 | 10328 | 2 |
Shelby | 4967 | 51871 | 41 |
St. Clair | 1918 | 19575 | 33 |
Sumter | 408 | 2417 | 19 |
Talladega | 1433 | 16507 | 23 |
Tallapoosa | 970 | 9972 | 82 |
Tuscaloosa | 5895 | 58213 | 102 |
Unknown or Out of State | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Walker | 2102 | 14952 | 76 |
Washington | 514 | 3196 | 13 |
Wilcox | 481 | 2447 | 11 |
Winston | 662 | 4939 | 12 |