July 30, 2020
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DeKalb County has been included on a “daily hotspot triage” report distributed by the Department of Homeland Security and obtained by ABC News. It identified 98 emerging hot spots for COVID-19 in 30 states and 21 of these were considered “new emerging hot spots.”
According to the Tennessee Department of Health, there were 269 total COVID-19 cases in DeKalb County as of Wednesday, July 29. Two weeks ago, the county only had 119 cases, which is a 126% increase during that time period.
The county of roughly 20,000 people has 159 active cases, according to the state, and one person has died. A total of 4,127 people have been tested since March with 3,858 negative results. One hundred nine persons tested positive have recovered.
The DeKalb County Health Department’s testing hours are Monday-Friday from 9am to 12 NOON every day.
At 269 cases, DeKalb County ranks 6th highest in the 14 county Upper Cumberland region behind Putnam with 1,465 (13 deaths), Macon 794 (13 deaths), Cumberland 346 (6 deaths), Warren 339 (3 deaths), and Smith 322 (2 deaths ). Other counties in the region with COVID-19 cases are White 175 (3 deaths), Overton 118 (1 death), Cannon 105, Jackson 103, Fentress 63, Clay 52, Van Buren 29, and Pickett 22 (1 death)
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