Hamilton County Has No New COVID Deaths For 4 Days In Row; 83 New Cases

The Health Department reported an additional 83 coronavirus cases in Hamilton County Friday, bringing the new total to 7,232. There are no more deaths and the toll remains at 63 for the fourth day in a row.

Hamilton County has had 5,738 residents recover from the virus.  There are currently 1,431 active cases in the county, a decrease of 88.

There are 65 COVID patients in Chattanooga hospitals, including four that are suspected. Those include 25 Hamilton County residents. Intensive Care patients are at 22.

Tennessee had 61 more coronavirus deaths bringing the total to 1,549, state Health Department officials said. 

There were 1,669 new cases in the state for a total of 140,844.

There were 99 more patients hospitalized to bring that total to 6,255.

There have been 102,686 people recover from the virus.

Testing numbers are above 1.978 million.

Here are the numbers by county:

Shelby County: 25,427 cases, up 217; 360 deaths, up 14

Davidson County: 22,617 cases, up 156; 245 deaths, up 3

Knox County: 5,607 cases, up 87; 49 deaths, up 1

Bledsoe County:  760 cases, up 1; 3 deaths

Bradley County: 2,276 cases, up 29; 16 deaths

Franklin County: 412 cases, up 12; 4 deaths

Grundy County: 139 cases; 2 deaths

Marion County: 285 cases, up 7; 5 deaths

McMinn County: 684 cases, up 23; 20 deaths

Meigs County: 131 cases, up 1; 2 deaths, up 1

Monroe County: 580 cases, up 18; 10 deaths

Polk County: 296 cases, up 2; 10 deaths

Rhea County: 606 cases, up 4; 2 deaths

Sequatchie County: 136 cases, up 4; 1 death