A new death was reported locally for COVID-19, alongside new hospital patients being admitted and new cases over the past two days, according to the latest data from the Georgia Department of Public Health.

The DPH reported that a 65-year-old woman with unknown factors for co-morbidity is the latest victim added to the tally for COVID-19 deaths in Polk County, bringing the overall total to 29 since tracking began, and 11 for the month of October alone.

The five new hospital patients admitted for COVID-19 at area medical facilities brought that overall total to 136 patients who come from Polk County who have been treated. Today’s increase in the number was the first reports of new patients being admitted in five days.

The overall tally of new COVID-19 positives reported this afternoon sits at 1,711 in total, an increase of 10 since the last report here on Polk.Today on Monday. COVID-19’s overall positive rate stood at 12.2% – a tenth of a percentage point drop after five days without a change – but the two-week moving average jumped to 11% on the day after having dipped to 10.4% on Tuesday.

With this data, the math puts the number of tests submitted to the state at 14,024 overall.

Georgia’s total number of new positives on the day was 1,734, which now puts the total number of positives reported across Georgia at 355,025 cases reported since tracking began in late February. Georgia’s overall rate now stands at 9.5%, and more than 3.8 million test results have been submitted from labs statewide.

Across the state, 114 new hospital admissions for the virus were reported, bringing COVID-19 hospitalizations to 31,370 since tracking began, and out of that figure there have been 5,888 intensive care admissions to treat people whose symptoms require additional care.

Sadly, the number of people who were reported to have died from COVID-19 in Georgia stood at 7,876 as of the midweek report, an increase of 14 on the day.

The national death toll stood at 225,985 confirmed as of Tuesday, an increase day-to-day of 901 new deaths reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Officials also reported an increase of another 72,183 new COVID-19 cases confirmed as of Tuesday, bringing the total to 8,752,794 since tracking began across the country.