Coronavirus
North Alabama Counties Are Hotspots as State Records 3,390 Cases of COVID-19
With COVID-19 hotspots scattered across north Alabama, the state recorded 3,390 new cases of the disease and 46 deaths, the state Department of Public Health reported Saturday.
It was the fifth consecutive day with more than 3,000 cases, pushing the totals for the pandemic to 267,390 cases and 3,877 deaths. Alabama is averaging 3,228 new cases a day over the past week, compared to 1,241 daily for the week ending Nov. 1.
The number of people in Alabama hospitals for treatment of the coronavirus also stood at a record level — 1,875 on Friday. That is up from 1,571 one week ago.
Jackson County (Scottsboro), in the northeast corner of the state, recorded 104 new cases in Saturday’s report, and it leads the state with 1,873 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks.
Two nearby Tennessee valley counties are high on the list. Marshall County (Albertville, Guntersville) is second with 1,328, and Morgan County (Decatur) lists 1,165. Other counties, all in north Alabama, with more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 population over the past two weeks are Etowah, 1,301; Fayette, 1,270; Cullman, 1,076; Winston, 1,041; and Colbert, 1,032,
Chambers County in southwest Alabama has the lowest rate of 175 cases per 100,000 population over the last 14 days. Jefferson County stands at 870, Madison County at 751, Montgomery County at 420 and Mobile County at 370.
The list of counties with numbers of cases, individuals tested and deaths.
Autauga | 2979 | 17804 | 42 |
Baldwin | 9626 | 71128 | 138 |
Barbour | 1219 | 7025 | 29 |
Bibb | 1283 | 9555 | 38 |
Blount | 3281 | 15883 | 46 |
Bullock | 713 | 3520 | 20 |
Butler | 1225 | 5934 | 42 |
Calhoun | 7027 | 40893 | 127 |
Chambers | 1901 | 11992 | 54 |
Cherokee | 1090 | 6347 | 24 |
Chilton | 2372 | 12165 | 45 |
Choctaw | 438 | 1966 | 20 |
Clarke | 1660 | 8683 | 22 |
Clay | 956 | 4603 | 27 |
Cleburne | 819 | 3569 | 14 |
Coffee | 2637 | 18131 | 23 |
Colbert | 3516 | 19473 | 49 |
Conecuh | 735 | 3262 | 15 |
Coosa | 393 | 2268 | 4 |
Covington | 2358 | 12088 | 38 |
Crenshaw | 741 | 4037 | 31 |
Cullman | 4985 | 28454 | 53 |
Dale | 2510 | 17894 | 59 |
Dallas | 2378 | 12865 | 33 |
DeKalb | 5282 | 22633 | 43 |
Elmore | 4446 | 29811 | 70 |
Escambia | 2096 | 10626 | 32 |
Etowah | 7168 | 40329 | 70 |
Fayette | 1045 | 5755 | 16 |
Franklin | 2685 | 11162 | 34 |
Geneva | 1305 | 8442 | 9 |
Greene | 466 | 2903 | 18 |
Hale | 1024 | 6542 | 32 |
Henry | 921 | 6125 | 7 |
Houston | 5650 | 45186 | 42 |
Jackson | 3839 | 21773 | 23 |
Jefferson | 36002 | 289981 | 519 |
Lamar | 744 | 4200 | 8 |
Lauderdale | 4593 | 29620 | 57 |
Lawrence | 1421 | 6566 | 36 |
Lee | 8131 | 61670 | 68 |
Limestone | 4697 | 25751 | 47 |
Lowndes | 833 | 3221 | 30 |
Macon | 778 | 5210 | 22 |
Madison | 14854 | 132641 | 159 |
Marengo | 1292 | 8099 | 24 |
Marion | 1530 | 8875 | 36 |
Marshall | 7063 | 33050 | 58 |
Mobile | 20764 | 135183 | 377 |
Monroe | 855 | 5889 | 11 |
Montgomery | 12919 | 73739 | 247 |
Morgan | 7512 | 38003 | 58 |
Perry | 706 | 3731 | 7 |
Pickens | 1306 | 7638 | 21 |
Pike | 1660 | 10987 | 15 |
Randolph | 1083 | 5961 | 22 |
Russell | 2350 | 14037 | 3 |
St. Clair | 4733 | 29459 | 57 |
Shelby | 11450 | 82811 | 79 |
Sumter | 612 | 3467 | 22 |
Talladega | 3911 | 24787 | 60 |
Tallapoosa | 1928 | 15301 | 92 |
Tuscaloosa | 14065 | 101794 | 176 |
Walker | 3950 | 21932 | 112 |
Washington | 944 | 4768 | 22 |
Wilcox | 662 | 3144 | 18 |
Winston | 1472 | 7599 | 25 |