December 5, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
The COVID related death count in DeKalb County is now 25, an increase of 3 since Sunday, November 29.
According to the Tennessee Department of Health, DeKalb County has 166 active cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, December 4. Twenty one new cases were reported Friday.
(Click Link Below for DeKalb County Report)
https://covid19.tn.gov/data/dashboards/?County=Dekalb
There have been 1,267 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 since March in DeKalb County , 34 have been hospitalized, and 1,076 are now inactive or have recovered.
Over the last seven days, (November 28 to December 4) DeKalb County had a case count of 154 for a daily case rate of 107.4 per 100,000 residents. An increase from the seven day period of November 23 to November 29 when the case count was 91 for a daily case rate of 63.4 per 100,000 residents.
Over the last 14 days, (November 21 to December4) DeKalb County’s case count was 211 for a daily case rate of 73.6 per 100,000 residents. That is up from the 14 day period of November 16-29 when the case count was 202 for a daily case rate of 70.4 per 100,000 residents.
For the 14 days prior (November 11-20), the case count was 251 for a daily case rate of 87.5 per 100, 000 residents. That compares with November 2-15 when the case count was 216 for a daily case rate of 75.3 per 100,000 residents.
From March 5 to December 4, DeKalb County has had a total of 1,267 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 for a daily case rate of 23.4 per 100,000 residents.
Over the last 7 days DeKalb County has averaged 100.3 tests per day (489.4 tests per 100,000 residents) and over the last 7 days the average percent positive was 16.7 %.