Coronavirus

Friday’s Alabama COVID-19 Update: 5,057 New Cases, 111 Deaths

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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