A new death was reported in the latest Georgia Department of Public Health report, bringing the total to five and marks the third in the past five days.

The latest death is that of a 81-year-old male, making the count three men and two women since tracking began, and after the first death was reported in May.

Saturday tallies from the Georgia Department of Public Health put Polk County at 509 cases, adding another 30 new cases in the past 24 hours. It comes a day after Polk County’s fourth death from the virus was reported, and marking the third since July 18.

The first death occurred on May 8 but was not statistically added until near month’s end.

The afternoon report put the number of hospitalizations for the virus locally at 21, remaining flat in past days.

An 84-year-old man and 59-year old woman were reported to have died from the virus on July 18 and 22, and Friday the Department of Public Health added a 79-year old woman to the official count.

Statewide the number of total cases is now 165,188, which includes 3,787 new positives for COVID-19 since the afternoon report on Friday. That total figure since tracking began in late February is out of more than 1.41 million tests conducted, which is around an 10.7% positive rate as of this afternoon.

As of the July 25 report, another 53 people have sadly perished from COVID-19, bringing the official tally to 3,495 Georgians who have died. New hospital cases statewide were reported at 277, bringing the total since tracking began to 17,029. That figure includes a total of 3,158 intensive care patients, a number in recent days on the rise in Georgia.

Nationwide, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention put the new number of positives at 72,219, bringing the overall count to 4,024,492. Some 143,868 people have died, an increase of 1,113 people. New deaths have been going up in the United States in recent days as well.

For context, the number of new deaths today is still higher than the total lost in one day at the Battle of Savo Island in World War II by U.S. Armed Forces fighting Japan.