January 26, 2021–5:18 p.m.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Another 51 Floyd County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 according to Tuesday’s status report from the Georgia Department of Public Health.

Floyd County is now at 8,336 total cases since the start of the pandemic….600 of those cases coming in the last two weeks.

There are currently 59 COVID-19 patients at Floyd Medical Center and 55 at Redmond.

133 Floyd County residents have died from the virus since March.

Statewide, we are at 727,752 total cases, up by 5,706 in Monday’s report.

Another 142 confirmed deaths were reported from Monday to Tuesday for a total of 11,996.

There have been 48,915 hospitalizations, up by 417 from Monday’s report.