A second death in Polk County has been added back to the tally in today’s latest report from the Georgia Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 update.

The only details available so far are that he is an 84-year-old male.

His death is the secod time that the DPH has added a fatality from the novel coronavirus to Polk’s numbers, which now sit at 410 positives since tracking began, an increase by another 11 cases over the past day of number releases.

Additional details about the death are expected as soon as possible.

The updated numbers for today (July 18) put Polk’s hospitalizations at 20, where they have remained for the time being. That puts the rate currently at one out of every 20 people or so who have been found to have COVID-19 require hospitalization for the virus, and one out of every 200 who have tested positive so far have died.

Georgia’s new positives overall increased since the last report by 4,430 to 139,872, and 35 additional deaths reported at 35 to bring the tally to 3,168. Another 298 people in the past day were reported to have needed hospital treatment, brining the total since late February when tracking began to 14,961 patients treated for the virus.

Out of that, the DPH reported today that 2,819 people needed intensive care treatment for the virus.

Around the area, numbers continued upward in positive cases. Bartow County now has 1,131 total people who have tested positive, and out of that 173 needed hospital treatment and 47 have died.

Paulding’s latest figures put them at 1,003 positives in total, with 108 patients hospitalized and 16 deaths.

Floyd posted a new figure of 853 total cases, requiring 61 people to be hospitalized over the course of the past months to today and caused 15 deaths.

Haralson added new cases as well, now at 132 positives, 18 hospital cases and now six deaths from COVID-19.

Across the country, the number of new cases was reported at 72,045, with 3,555,877 total positives. Sadly, 926 new deaths were reported to bring the total to 137,864 in total according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as of Friday.