LANIER COUNTY’s COVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES FOLLOW GEORGIA’S STATE-WIDE TRENDS
By Carol A. Gasser Moore
LANIER COUNTY, Georgia – This week in Georgia brought the largest single-day rise in deaths since 78 were reported May 21. In Lanier County, the Georgia of Department of Public Health (DPH) has not added the two known Lanier County citizens deaths last week into its count, but they were confirmed COVID-19 related deaths. Our local death rate numbers are clearly rising.
Read the whole story in the July 23rd e-edition of the Lanier County News!
COVID-19 Weekly Case Changes July 15 – July 22, 2020
HEALTH SOUTH DISTRICT
Department of Public Health
| COUNTIES SOUTH HEALTH DISTRICT | Tested Positive | % Change | Deaths | % Change | Hospitalizations | % Change |
| Ben Hill | 284 | 18% + | 1 | 0% | 24 | 33%+ |
| Berrien | 205 | 10%+ | 0 | 0% | 11 | 18%+ |
| Brooks | 293 | 20%+ | 12 | 8%+ | 32 | 25%+ |
| Cook | 301 | 17%+ | 5 | 20%+ | 34 | 26%+ |
| Echols | 217 | 8%+ | 0 | 0% | 6 | 0% |
| Irwin | 117 | 8%+ | 1 | 0% | 16 | 6%+ |
| Lanier | 185 | 9%+ | 3 | 0% | 13 | 15%+ |
| Lowndes | 2344 | 16%+ | 23 | 17%+ | 115 | 6%+ |
| Tift | 1089 | 8%+ | 32 | 12%+ | 146 | 15%+ |
| Turner | 204 | 6%+ | 18 | 0% | 36 | 2%+ |
