5,000 new COVID cases in Alabama since yesterday

#Alabama posted one of its highest single-day COVID case increases this morning.

The #Alabama #Department of #Public #Health’s #Dec. 30 10 a.m. numbers show the state has had 356,820 coronavirus cases since #March, adding 5,016 since yesterday. ADPH reported no backlog of older test results but daily case numbers were lower than average in the days following #Christmas, only to shoot back up today.

The state added 37 deaths to bring the total to 4,774.

A record-high number of people – 2,804 – were hospitalized with COVID. The state updated recoveries to 202,137.

#Here are the latest county-by-county case results. The figures in parenthesis are the increases from the previous day:

#Autauga – 4164 (+59)

#Baldwin – 13392 (+220)

#Barbour – 1492 (+30)

#Bibb – 1817 (+25)

#Blount – 4584 (+49)

#Bullock – 846 (+12)

#Butler – 1493 (+11)

#Calhoun – 9428 (+83)

#Chambers – 2310 (+35)

#Cherokee – 1403 (+10)

#Chilton – 2913 (+48)

#Choctaw – 488 (+0)

#Clarke – 2357 (+25)

#Clay – 1131 (+15)

#Cleburne – 1011 (+6)

#Coffee – 3536 (+61)

#Colbert – 4573 (+73)

#Conecuh – 835 (+3)

#Coosa – 501 (+8)

#Covington – 2868 (+12)

#Crenshaw – 939 (+10)

#Cullman – 6989 (+127)

#Dale – 3283 (+53)

#Dallas – 2744 (+18)

#DeKalb – 6812 (+31)

#Elmore – 6321 (+134)

#Escambia – 2637 (+42)

#Etowah – 9937 (+111)

#Fayette – 1416 (+10)

#Franklin – 3233 (+48)

#Geneva – 1648 (+26)

#Greene – 662 (+12)

#Hale – 1437 (+27)

#Henry – 1222 (+29)

#Houston – 7157 (+122)

#Jackson – 5028 (+69)

#Jefferson – 51676 (+990)

#Lamar – 1037 (+12)

#Lauderdale – 6371 (+141)

#Lawrence – 2005 (+27)

#Lee – 10159 (+112)

#Limestone – 6724 (+96)

#Lowndes – 936 (+6)

#Macon – 989 (+8)

#Madison – 21884 (+263)

#Marengo – 1776 (+11)

#Marion – 2049 (+30)

#Marshall – 8996 (+81)

#Mobile – 25635 (+282)

#Monroe – 1195 (+40)

#Montgomery – 15986 (+190)

#Morgan – 10482 (+148)

#Perry – 853 (+11)

#Pickens – 1720 (+27)

#Pike – 1990 (+49)

#Randolph – 1235 (+7)

#Russell – 2775 (+47)

#St. #Clair – 6416 (+65)

#Shelby – 15501 (+197)

#Sumter – 834 (+9)

#Talladega – 5111 (+58)

#Tallapoosa – 2354 (+25)

#Tuscaloosa – 18341 (+255)

#Walker – 5185 (+116)

#Washington – 1176 (+11)

#Wilcox – 870 (+14)

#Winston – 1952 (+34)