45% of Alabama’s 522 new coronavirus cases from 4 counties

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A sign outside a Madison County recreation center. People are being urged to wear masks to fight the spread of coronavirus.Leada Gore

Four counties accounted for 45% of Alabama’s new coronavirus cases from yesterday.

The Alabama Department of Public Health’s May 29, 9:30 a.m. numbers show 16,554 COVID cases, up 522 from yesterday. Four of Alabama’s 67 counties accounted for almost half the increase – Montgomery (+95); Mobile (+48); Tuscaloosa (+48); and Jefferson (+42).

Alabama has 605 COVID deaths, up 22 from yesterday. Hospitalizations rose by 40.

The state has tested 206,757 people with 71,685 of those in the last 14 days.

ADPH listed 9,355 ‘presumed recoveries’ from the virus.

Here’s the latest county-by-county coronavirus case numbers. The numbers in parenthesis reflects the increase from the previous day:

Autauga – 205 (+13)

Baldwin – 281

Barbour – 132 (+2)

Bibb – 71

Blount – 58 (+5)

Bullock – 185 (+9)

Butler – 392 (+1)

Calhoun – 152

Chambers – 349 (+9)

Cherokee – 34 (+1)

Chilton – 97 (+4)

Choctaw – 148

Clarke – 130 (+2)

Clay – 27

Cleburne – 13

Coffee – 224

Colbert – 161

Conecuh – 35

Coosa – 35 (+1)

Covington – 77 (+2)

Crenshaw – 72 (+6)

Cullman – 96 (+8)

Dale – 99 (+3)

Dallas – 244 (+12)

DeKalb – 241 (+1)

Elmore – 313 (+13)

Escambia – 49 (+1)

Etowah – 244 (+4)

Fayette – 13

Franklin –515 (+17)

Geneva – 40

Greene – 92 (+1)

Hale – 151 (+10)

Henry – 71 (+1)

Houston – 188 (+3)

Jackson – 75 (+1)

Jefferson – 1,715 (+42)

Lamar – 21

Lauderdale – 153 (+8)

Lawrence – 46

Lee – 533 (+7)

Limestone – 87 (+1)

Lowndes – 223 (+7)

Macon – 71 (+4)

Madison – 318 (+3)

Marengo – 155 (+5)

Marion – 119 (+2)

Marshall – 668 (+8)

Mobile – 2133 (+48)

Monroe – 35 (+1)

Montgomery – 1,541 (+95)

Morgan – 231 (+20)

Perry – 35

Pickens – 102 (+6)

Pike – 179 (+6)

Randolph – 125 (+1)

Russell – 159 (+11)

Shelby – 484 (+14)

St. Clair – 116 (+8)

Sumter – 213 (+3)

Talladega – 100 (+4)

Tallapoosa – 418 (+8)

Tuscaloosa – 680 (+48)

Walker – 300 (+18)

Washington – 66 (+1)

Wilcox – 136 (+4)

Winston – 82 (+5)

Data source: The daily updates come from Alabama Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 tracker. Figures are from 9:30 a.m., with increases from the previous day’s figures reported at the same time. The ADPH tracker is live and figures change throughout the day.

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