Positive cases for COVID-19 continue to increase steadily as Georgia now has 12,261 positive patients along with 432 deaths.

The Augusta area has 356 reported positive cases from local hospitals and health care providers after Augusta University Health reported 21 new cases for a total of 189 positive since it began testing and 2,989 negative results. Twenty positive patients are currently being treated in the hospital.

University Hospital reported eight new positives Saturday morning. It is currently treating 28 patients in the hospital and there are six pending tests.

MedNow Urgent Care has seen 14 positive patients but 242 negative tests among samples it has collected at its test site at the Columbia County Exhibition Center, CEO Dr. Mark Newton said. The urgent care center has conducted 1,225 tests so far.

Doctors Hospital of Augusta has no new cases but two patients are under investigation, spokesman Peter Moberg said. The total for the hospital is 25 positive cases.

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Aiken Regional Medical Centers has had 20 positive patients, including nine in the hospital, spokeswoman Ashlee Brewer said. Jefferson Hospital has had four patients test positive but 24 tested negative.

Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center had one positive patient in the hospital but 12 who were outpatient and four employees who all tested positive and were at home. Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center has reported one case.

The Georgia Department of Public Health reported 138 cases in Richmond County with three deaths, though it had previously reported four. Columbia County had 68 cases and Burke County had 28 with one death. McDuffie County had 20 cases with two deaths, Jenkins County had nine with one death, and Lincoln had eight while Jefferson, Warren and Wilkes counties had six each. One death was reported in Jefferson County. Screven County had five cases.

The state also reported 1,397 cases and four deaths where the patients’ county of residence was unknown.

South Carolina saw 3,207 cases and 80 deaths, including the one at Aiken Regional. Aiken County had 50 cases and Edgefield County had 10.

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