Dozens of new cases, new hospital patients and a new death were reported in recent days according to the Georgia Department of Public Health’s most recent update of COVID-19 numbers for Polk County.

Thursday marked the day that Polk jumped past 2,200 positives – 27 on Thursday, 22 on Friday and another 13 today – to bring the overall tally to 2,259 COVID-19 cases reported in Polk County. The latest death from the virus came on Friday afternoon, when the county jumped to 40 overall and remained two probable deaths.

Friday’s reported death was that of a 71-year-old white female with co-morbidity factors listed as unknown.

Here’s the full list of deaths reported in Polk County from COVID-19, updated with the latest reported death on December 18.

Alongside the increase in new positives and the new death, Polk County also saw an increase in new hospital patients. As of this afternoon, the tally was at 209 patients treated for COVID-19. That’s a increase of three new patients since Wednesday afternoon’s report.

Polk County’s antigen positive cases went up by 65 in that same period, and the two-week average went up from 11.9% to 13.6% and the overall positive rate increase to 12.8%.

With the total number of positives and the percentage figure available, Polk County’s total number of tests administered sits at 17,648.

The state and national figures have jumped drastically in the past three days.

Georgia surpassed 500,000 positives with increases in cases since this past midweek, an increase in the past three days of new 16,000-plus positives for the virus. That brought the overall rate up to 9.6% in Georgia.

The number of hospitalizations in the past few days by another 1,199 patients admitted to Georgia hospitals statewide, bringing that figure to 39,310 people treated overall. Included in that figure is the 7,045 patients who have needed intensive care treatment to battle the virus as well.

The state reported 185 new deaths since midweek, now at 9,435 Georgians who have perished from the virus or causes worsened by COVID-19 infections. That figure includes 946 probable deaths.

Nationwide, the figures are truly grim. There are now 17.3 million total cases of COVID-19, a jump of 1.2 million additional cases since midweek. The death toll now sits at 312,636 across the country from the virus.