Georgia’s COVID-19 case total surpasses 750,000

State on Monday reports 2,587 additional coronavirus cases, 44 more deaths

FILE - A lab technician begins semi-automated testing for COVID-19 at Northwell Health Labs on March 11 in Lake Success, New York. (Photo by Andrew Theodorakis/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

The Georgia Department of Public Health on Monday reported 2,587 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those cases, 47 were reported in the six Southeast Georgia counties tracked by News4Jax.

As of Monday, a total of 752,448 confirmed cases had been reported by the state Department of Public Health.

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The agency on Monday reported 44 additional confirmed deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 12,613 confirmed deaths since the start of the pandemic.

According to the state Department of Public Health, 6,474,133 tests have been performed in the state, which had an 11.2% positivity rate, as of Monday.

Georgia was reporting a total of 160,031 antigen positive cases and 1,629 “probable” deaths on Monday. For more on those categories, click here.

(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, 86 additional hospitalizations were reported, bringing the state’s total to 50,323 since the outbreak began.

(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.