August 6, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
DeKalb County has recorded a 2nd death from COVID-19 just over two weeks after the first one.
According to the Tennessee Department of Health, DeKalb County has 331 confirmed cases of COVID-19, as of Thursday, August 6. A total of 4,817 have been tested since March with 4,486 negative results and 331 positive and 2 deaths.
The DeKalb County Health Department’s testing hours are Monday-Friday from 9am to 12 NOON every day.
At 331 cases, DeKalb County ranks 6th highest in the 14 county Upper Cumberland region behind Putnam with 1,677 (16 deaths), Macon 855 (13 deaths), Warren 476 (4 deaths), Cumberland 398 (6 deaths), and Smith 429 (4 deaths ). Other counties in the region with COVID-19 cases are White 246 (5 deaths), Overton 155 (1 death), Cannon 136, Jackson 112 (1 death), Fentress 79, Clay 71, Van Buren 35, and Pickett 30 (1 death)
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html