Coronavirus
Friday’s Alabama COVID-19 Update: 5,057 New Cases, 111 Deaths
There were 5,057 new cases of COVID-19 and 111 deaths from the disease in Friday’s daily update by the Alabama Department of Public Health.
Those additions brought the state’s total figures for the pandemic to 394,287 cases and 5,191 deaths. ADPH said said some of the new cases and deaths in Friday’s report reflected late reporting from the recent holiday period.
Alabama averaged 4,077 new cases a day over the past week. The Health Department said an average of 35% of the coronavirus tests have come back positive during the past seven days.
Jefferson County reported 28 deaths to raise its total for the pandemic to 28. The state’s most populous count added 786 new cases for a total of 57,609. Madison Count had 400 new cases, followed by Mobile County with 326, Montgomery County with 248 and Shelby County with 218.
Hale County (Greensboro) has recorded the highest number of cases per capita over the past weeks, with a total of 1,693 cases per 100,000 population. It is followed by Elmore County (Wetumpka) at 1,629; Crenshaw County (Luverne), 1,518; Autauga County (Prattville), 1,380; and Jefferson County, 1,325.
The list of counties with numbers of cases, individuals tested and deaths.
Autauga | 4770 | 21769 | 50 |
Baldwin | 15052 | 85835 | 171 |
Barbour | 1634 | 9569 | 35 |
Bibb | 2015 | 11459 | 48 |
Blount | 5018 | 19396 | 75 |
Bullock | 949 | 4915 | 28 |
Butler | 1610 | 6806 | 46 |
Calhoun | 10372 | 50438 | 159 |
Chambers | 2592 | 13924 | 63 |
Cherokee | 1517 | 7353 | 24 |
Chilton | 3218 | 13990 | 54 |
Choctaw | 498 | 2248 | 22 |
Clarke | 2575 | 11547 | 26 |
Clay | 1211 | 5430 | 35 |
Cleburne | 1107 | 4580 | 17 |
Coffee | 4046 | 21775 | 42 |
Colbert | 4958 | 23722 | 61 |
Conecuh | 888 | 3767 | 17 |
Coosa | 571 | 2649 | 7 |
Covington | 3110 | 14740 | 43 |
Crenshaw | 1108 | 4946 | 36 |
Cullman | 7613 | 34452 | 78 |
Dale | 3636 | 21880 | 64 |
Dallas | 2908 | 14592 | 45 |
DeKalb | 7271 | 26603 | 62 |
Elmore | 7238 | 38175 | 85 |
Escambia | 2893 | 12515 | 34 |
Etowah | 10854 | 47964 | 105 |
Fayette | 1534 | 6899 | 21 |
Franklin | 3462 | 13124 | 39 |
Geneva | 1858 | 10423 | 23 |
Greene | 723 | 3630 | 20 |
Hale | 1622 | 8016 | 41 |
Henry | 1407 | 7501 | 9 |
Houston | 8013 | 54640 | 72 |
Jackson | 5495 | 26099 | 34 |
Jefferson | 57609 | 347787 | 776 |
Lamar | 1124 | 5078 | 16 |
Lauderdale | 7051 | 35696 | 71 |
Lawrence | 2263 | 8211 | 44 |
Lee | 11355 | 71657 | 79 |
Limestone | 7426 | 31152 | 60 |
Lowndes | 1037 | 3727 | 34 |
Macon | 1073 | 6375 | 35 |
Madison | 24795 | 162615 | 179 |
Marengo | 1910 | 9565 | 27 |
Marion | 2281 | 10360 | 46 |
Marshall | 9710 | 38905 | 92 |
Mobile | 28034 | 155871 | 521 |
Monroe | 1355 | 7038 | 12 |
Montgomery | 17723 | 87212 | 282 |
Morgan | 11485 | 46148 | 103 |
Perry | 914 | 4235 | 19 |
Pickens | 1854 | 8624 | 31 |
Pike | 2281 | 12469 | 23 |
Randolph | 1328 | 7002 | 32 |
Russell | 3013 | 15895 | 7 |
St. Clair | 7055 | 35922 | 74 |
Shelby | 17253 | 98933 | 105 |
Sumter | 885 | 4094 | 24 |
Talladega | 5689 | 29273 | 84 |
Tallapoosa | 2531 | 18314 | 107 |
Tuscaloosa | 19878 | 117091 | 267 |
Walker | 5648 | 25102 | 170 |
Washington | 1305 | 5740 | 26 |
Wilcox | 939 | 4170 | 20 |
Winston | 2137 | 8915 | 34 |