Georgia reports another day of over 1,000 additional COVID-19 cases

In this Tuesday, April 28, 2020, photo, Alexander Faigen, of Augusta University's Dental College of Georgia, shows how far a nasal swab must be inserted in Augusta, Ga. Volunteers at a Georgia dental college who started using a 3D printer to make nasal swabs used in test kits for the coronavirus are now a major part of the state's effort to expand testing. (AP Photo/Ron Harris) (Ron Harris, Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The Georgia Department of Public Health on Monday reported an additional 1,111 confirmed COVID-19 cases. Of those cases, 27 were reported in the six Southeast Georgia counties tracked by News4Jax.

As of Monday, a total of 374,181 confirmed cases had been reported by the state Department of Public Health.

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The state Department of Public Health on Monday reported 29 additional deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 8,223.

According to the state Department of Public Health, 3,749,894 tests have been performed in the state, which had a 9.3% positivity rate, as of Monday.

(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 Monday, an additional 15 hospitalizations were reported, bringing the state’s total to 32,483.

(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

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.