DeKalb COVID-19 Update

February 19, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

No new cases of COVID-19 were reported by the Tennessee Department of Health in DeKalb County Thursday and the number of active cases stands at 48.

Over the last seven days, DeKalb County had a case count of 27 for a daily case rate of 18.8 per 100,000 residents and the average positive percentage was 10.3%.

The COVID-19 related death count in DeKalb County is 47 since last March and 48 have been hospitalized within the last 11 months.

The total number of confirmed or probable cases of COVID 19 in DeKalb County since March stands at 2,604 and 2,509 are now inactive or have recovered.

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