Published: 7/21/2022 - ARK - TDOH
GILES COUNTY IS REPORTING HIGH COVID-19 INFECTION RATES AND THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE RATING OF RISK FOR COVID INFECTION (WITH RATES OVER 57.8 NEW ACTIVE CASES PER 100,000 PEOPLE PER DAY) - MAKING GILES ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE COVID HOTSPOTS IN THE COUNTRY - AND WE'RE HIGHER THAN ALL OUR SURROUNDING COUNTIES. IN THE NEWEST WEEKLY COVID CASE REPORT, THE TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RELEASED DATA FOR COVID 19 ACROSS FOR THE PERIOD BETWEEN JULY 10th AND JULY 16TH, NUMBERS ARE STILL TRENDING UPWARD ACROSS THE STATE WITH APPROXIMATELY 2,842 NEW CASES STATEWIDE EACH DAY LAST WEEK, WITH 12+ NEW DEATHS REPORTED PER DAY ON AVERAGE. TOTAL TENNESSEE CASES TO DATE IS NOW OVER 2,168,080 CASES, WITH 26,853 RESIDENT FATALITIES. GILES COUNTY’S NUMBERS ARE MUCH HIGHER THIS WEEK WITH APPROXIMATELY 76.3 NEW ACTIVE CASES IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS AND 197 FATALITIES TO DATE. GILES IS NOW REPORTING 9,929 TOTAL CASES TO DATE. OVER THE REPORTED SEVEN DAYS POSITIVE RATE WAS 25.9%. 40.1% OF GILES COUNTY RESIDENTS ARE FULLY VACCINATED - COMPARED TO THE NATIONAL RATE OF 67.6%.
