Coronavirus
Number of COVID-19 Deaths in Alabama Climbs Above 300 Mark
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Alabama climbed above the 300 mark today, the Alabama Department of Public Health reported.
The department said 310 people who tested positive for the coronavirus have died in the state, including 38 since the beginning of March last Friday. The number of those testing positive stood at 8,206. The latest report said 106,003 people have been tested in Alabama.
The greatest concentration of COVID-19 has been in Mobile County, where 1,226 people have tested positive for the disease and 68 of those have died. Jefferson County has reported 995 positive tests and 49 deaths.
Lee County, home to Auburn, has the next-most deaths reported with 28 and has had 404 confirmed cases of the disease. In adjacent counties, Chambers County has had 21 reported deaths and 303 cases, and Tallapoosa County has had 22 deaths and 299 cases.
Other counties with 200 or more confirmed cases are: Montgomery, 439; Marshall, 399, Shelby, 330; Tuscaloosa, 239; Madison, 238.
Here is the full list of counties with number of cases, number of tests for the disease and deaths.
Baldwin | 189 | 3446 | 5 |
Barbour | 45 | 381 | 1 |
Bibb | 43 | 828 | 0 |
Blount | 40 | 791 | 0 |
Bullock | 16 | 123 | 0 |
Butler | 116 | 470 | 2 |
Calhoun | 108 | 1729 | 3 |
Chambers | 303 | 1109 | 21 |
Cherokee | 17 | 311 | 0 |
Chilton | 59 | 704 | 1 |
Choctaw | 52 | 184 | 0 |
Clarke | 43 | 457 | 1 |
Clay | 23 | 283 | 1 |
Cleburne | 13 | 107 | 1 |
Coffee | 134 | 923 | 0 |
Colbert | 41 | 1035 | 2 |
Conecuh | 9 | 137 | 0 |
Coosa | 30 | 165 | 1 |
Covington | 45 | 523 | 1 |
Crenshaw | 26 | 284 | 0 |
Cullman | 58 | 1496 | 0 |
Dale | 34 | 535 | 0 |
Dallas | 66 | 725 | 3 |
DeKalb | 94 | 1242 | 2 |
Elmore | 113 | 1412 | 3 |
Escambia | 32 | 622 | 2 |
Etowah | 148 | 2238 | 10 |
Fayette | 6 | 319 | 0 |
Franklin | 139 | 778 | 0 |
Geneva | 11 | 269 | 0 |
Greene | 61 | 236 | 2 |
Hale | 58 | 372 | 2 |
Henry | 27 | 230 | 1 |
Houston | 98 | 1324 | 4 |
Jackson | 50 | 1343 | 2 |
Jefferson | 995 | 17130 | 49 |
Lamar | 12 | 279 | 0 |
Lauderdale | 63 | 1767 | 2 |
Lawrence | 14 | 379 | 0 |
Lee | 404 | 3236 | 28 |
Limestone | 48 | 1368 | 0 |
Lowndes | 75 | 235 | 2 |
Macon | 41 | 337 | 2 |
Madison | 238 | 8462 | 4 |
Marengo | 66 | 563 | 3 |
Marion | 87 | 927 | 6 |
Marshall | 399 | 3235 | 8 |
Mobile | 1226 | 9122 | 68 |
Monroe | 13 | 239 | 1 |
Montgomery | 439 | 3279 | 8 |
Morgan | 76 | 1963 | 0 |
Perry | 16 | 318 | 0 |
Pickens | 56 | 504 | 2 |
Pike | 79 | 725 | 0 |
Randolph | 79 | 454 | 4 |
Russell | 63 | 566 | 0 |
Shelby | 330 | 4385 | 13 |
St. Clair | 76 | 1425 | 0 |
Sumter | 81 | 352 | 3 |
Talladega | 66 | 1445 | 2 |
Tallapoosa | 299 | 1542 | 22 |
Tuscaloosa | 239 | 4724 | 3 |
Unknown or Out of State | N/A | 7001 | N/A |
Walker | 100 | 1048 | 0 |
Washington | 38 | 227 | 2 |
Wilcox | 72 | 252 | 4 |
Winston | 16 | 457 | 0 |