No new deaths were reported after one each on Friday and Saturday, but a new hospital case was added to Polk County’s tally along with 12 positive tests for COVID-19, according to figures released this afternoon by the Georgia Department of Public Health.

The total number of COVID-19 cases now stands at 521, and with the new hospitalization brought that total to 22 for the Sunday, July 26 report. COVID-19 remains responsible for five deaths according to the DPH, four of those reported since July 18.

Polk County’s new number of COVID-19 cases has gone up by 111 since last Sunday alone, based on the figures posted daily. By comparison, it took the local total for the count of coronavirus positives to reach that point from March 12 to May 27.

After a large increase in the number of new deaths and hospitalizations in recent days, the statewide tally of new deaths was at just three, and new hospital cases at 62 in the past 24 hours, which included a new patient here locally. Total cases stood at 167,953, an increase of 2,765 positives since the Saturday afternoon report. Georgia’s total number of hospital cases stood at 17,091, with 3,168 intensive care admissions now on the books out of that hospital patient tally.

The number of cases around Polk County is going up as well. Bartow County posted a new total of 1,354 cases, with 183 hospital patients and 51 deaths. In Paulding, the number of cases has now reached 1,222 positives, with 118 people who have required hospital care in total and 18 deaths since tracking began.

Floyd County has pushed past 1,000 cases to sit at 1,047 on the day to end the weekend, with 66 people now hospitalized in total since tracking began, though they remained at 15 deaths. Haralson had 169 positives as of this report, added has 19 total hospitalizations and six deaths since late February.

Nationwide, 4,163,892 total cases of COVID-19 have been reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, an increase of 64,582 new cases in the past day. Another 929 brought the death toll since tracking began to 145,942.