The Georgia Department of Health’s latest report added eight more cases of COVID-19 to the overall tally on Tuesday, and no other numbers increased in the past 24 hours according to the August 4 update.

Polk County’s total number of cases now stands at 690, with 34 people who have been hospitalized in total and nine deaths recorded since tracking began statewide in late February, and Polk County’s first case was confirmed in mid-March.

Along with the latest update from the state the Georgia Department of Community Health’s August 4 report also shed light on the three new deaths reported in Polk County.

Their data recorded the three new deaths as residents of Cedar Valley Nursing and Rehab, to bring the total number in that facility to six overall. They listed the facility at 25 total positives out of 102 residents tested and 69 current residents in the facility, plus 24 staff members who have tested positive as well.

Eight residents in Cedar Valley Nursing and Rehab have been reported as recovered from the virus.

No facility in Polk County has gone without some form of exposure to COVID-19 in past weeks and months. Out of the 37 residents at Big Springs Place in Cedartown, the facility has recorded one death from the virus, and have had another resident and three staff members who have tested positive as well.

Cedar Hill Senior Living Community has 30 residents in total at this time and luckily none have tested positive, but a staff member was recorded to have received a positive result back for COVID-19. At Cedar Springs Health and Rehab, the number of tests were at 62 so far (58 residents currently) and no resident had tested positive, but two staff members have as of August 4.

And at Rockmart Health, only one resident tested positive and recovered from the virus, along with a staff member out of a population currently at 39.

Polk County recorded the additional three deaths from COVID-19 at a local nursing home on Sunday, when it was reported that three women above the age of 65 had died from the virus, but had other ailments that contributed to their deaths.

As COVID-19 continues to impact the community locally, the numbers statewide grow as well. Another 2,573 positives brought the total to 197,948 positives out of 1.664+ million tests conducted statewide since tracking began in late February. That increase included 302 new hospital patients to bring that total to 19,426, and out of that 3,556 patients have needed ICU treatment in total.

Sadly, another 81 deaths brought the loss to the virus to 3,921 statewide.

The national death toll attributed to COVID-19 now stands at 154,471, an addition of 469 deaths as of the August 3 numbers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The national agency tracking the pandemic put the total at 4,649,102 positives, an increase of confirmed numbers of 47,576 in 24 hours.