Mobile County, which has seen a rapid increase in novel coronavirus cases in recent weeks, now has the most confirmed cases and deaths from the virus of any county in Alabama, according to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health.

Mobile reached 710 confirmed cases Tuesday afternoon - the first county in Alabama to top 700 cases. It passed Jefferson County, the most populous in the state, for the highest case count. Jefferson has 245,000 more people than Mobile, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Mobile also had 36 reported deaths from the virus, 10 more than Jefferson, the next highest in Alabama.

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The outbreak in Mobile represents the worst in any of Alabama’s large counties. Of the state’s seven counties with more than 200,000 people, Mobile has by far the most cases and deaths per capita. 17.2 people in 10,000 have confirmed cases in Mobile, and 0.9 in 10,000 are reported to have died of the virus, as of Tuesday afternoon.

But other, less populous parts of the state have seen even larger per capita numbers. Chambers County, in east Alabama, seemed to be the early epicenter of the state’s outbreak. It’s still home to the state’s highest per capita case rate, a staggering 77.6 in 10,000. That’s higher than 48 U.S. states, lower only than New York and New Jersey, both of which are at the heart of the worst outbreak in the country.

Chambers is also home to the highest death rate in Alabama at 4.5 in 10,000, and it’s at the center of what now seems like a larger outbreak in east Alabama. Two of Chambers’ neighboring counties also have very high case and death rates.

Lee, just South of Chambers and home to Auburn University, has 319 confirmed cases and 18 reported deaths. It has the state’s 12th highest case rate and sixth highest death rate, at 19.4 and 1.1, respectively. It’s one of just seven counties in the state with a reported death rate higher than 1 in 10,000 people.

Lee’s outbreak has been relatively bad since early in the state’s fight against the virus - but another of Chambers’ neighbors is now starting to get bad: Tallapoosa.

Tallapoosa County is just to the west of Chambers, and is home to just over 40,000 people. More than 200 of them are confirmed to have COVID-19. Twelve are reported to have died. It has a case rate of 49.8 in 10,000 and a death rate of 3.0 in 10,000. It trails only Chambers in those categories.

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