Georgia reports 30 additional coronavirus-related deaths

State’s COVID-19 report for Wednesday delayed due to technical issue

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The Georgia Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported an additional 1,352 confirmed COVID-19 cases. Of those cases, 21 were reported in the six Southeast Georgia counties tracked by News4Jax.

As of Wednesday, a total of 343,750 confirmed cases had been reported by the state Department of Public Health.

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According to the state Department of Public Health, 3,338,315 tests have been performed in the state, which had a 9.6% positivity rate, as of Wednesday.

The state Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported 30 additional deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 7,704. One of the deaths reported Wednesday was in Brantley County and another was in Glynn County.

(Note: There are variations in the day-to-day data reported by the Georgia Department of Public Health. Data are based on available information at the time of the report and may not reflect all cases or tests performed in Georgia on that particular day. At times, cases and deaths are removed from the overall running total reported by the Department of Public Health.)

On Wednesday, an additional 135 hospitalizations were reported.

(The chart below is updated daily and the numbers might not reflect the date this article was posted.)

County-by-county breakdown for Southeast Georgia

Wednesday’s COVID-19 Daily Status Report was delayed due to a technical issue, according to the state Department of Public Health.

Typically, the webpage is updated with new data around 2:50 p.m. every day, but it did not update until shortly before 10:10 p.m. Wednesday.

Common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, breathing trouble, sore throat, muscle pain, and loss of taste or smell. Most people develop only mild symptoms. But some people, usually those with other medical complications, develop more severe symptoms, including pneumonia.