Hamilton County Has No New COVID Deaths For 6 Days In Row; 50 New Cases

  • Sunday, August 23, 2020

The Health Department reported an additional 50 coronavirus cases in Hamilton County Sunday, bringing the new total to 7,360. There are no more deaths and the toll remains at 63 for the sixth day in a row.

Tennessee had 4 more coronavirus deaths bringing the total to 1,567, state Health Department officials said. 

There were 1,854 new cases in the state for a total of 143,937.

There were 50 more patients hospitalized to bring that total to 6,378.

There have been 104,054 people recover from the virus.

Testing numbers are above 2.042 million.

Here are the numbers by county:

Shelby County: 25,858 cases, up 331; 369 deaths, up 5

Davidson County: 22,766 cases, up 110; 245 deaths

Knox County: 5,798 cases, up 116; 49 deaths

Bledsoe County:  768 cases, up 5; 3 deaths

Bradley County: 2,336 cases, up 30; 16 deaths

Franklin County: 422 cases, up 5; 4 deaths

Grundy County: 142 cases, up 3; 2 deaths

Marion County: 297 cases, up 8; 5 deaths

McMinn County: 714 cases, up 95; 20 deaths

Meigs County: 134 cases; 2 deaths

Monroe County: 601 cases, up 10; 10 deaths

Polk County: 302 cases, up 4; 10 deaths

Rhea County: 613 cases, up 1; 2 deaths

Sequatchie County: 138 cases, up 3; 1 death

For more information on COVID-19, call the Health Department’s hotline at 209-8383, or visit their website at Health.HamiltonTN.org.

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