October 27, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
DeKalb County’s number of active COVID-19 cases has jumped from 62 to 93 within the last five days. Fourteen new cases were documented just Tuesday, October 27.
According to the Tennessee Department of Health’s daily snapshot of DeKalb County as of Tuesday, October 27, there are now 93 active cases. The COVID related death count remains at 17 since March.
(Click Link Below for DeKalb County Report)
https://covid19.tn.gov/data/dashboards/?County=Dekalb
There have been 751 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 since March in DeKalb County , 30 have been hospitalized, and 641 are now inactive or have recovered.
Over the last seven days, (October 21-27), DeKalb County had an average daily case count of 74 or 51.6 per 100,000 residents per day. That’s up from 37 or 25.8 per 100,000 residents per day from October 16-22.
Over the last 14 days, (October 14 to October 27), DeKalb County’s average case count was 114 or 39.7 per 100,000 residents per day. An increase from 77 or 26.8 per 100,000 residents per day from October 9-22.
For the 14 days prior (September 30 to October 13), the case count was 63 or 22 per 100,000 residents per day. That’s up slightly from 61 or 21.3 per 100,000 residents per day from September 25 to October 8.
Over the last 7 days DeKalb County has averaged 70.57 tests per day (344.4 tests per 100,000 residents) and over the last 7 days the average percent positive was 13.6%, up from 9.9% on October 22.