Coronavirus in Alabama: Cases up 397%, nearing 1,000. Tallapoosa County has death

Another person has died from coronavirus in Alabama, according to state officials Monday morning, as 11 people have been killed in the state related to COVID-19.

The patient was from Tallapoosa County, according the Alabama Department of Public Health website. No more information was given on the fatality.

Although Alabama was one of the last states in the nation to confirm a case of coronavirus, the state has seen an exponential rise in the past week with a 397% increase in cases recognized by health officials.

All but 12 Alabama counties confirmed at least one positive case. Apart from Fayette County in northwest Alabama, all other remaining counties were located in the rural Black Belt and Wiregrass regions of the state.

At 7:50 a.m. Monday, Alabama’s confirmed coronavirus cases jumped to 830, according to the ADPH, a day after an Opelika hospital reported its sixth patient death at its facility since Friday related to coronavirus.

At the same time a week ago, Alabama had 167 cases.

At least 11 people have died from coronavirus complications, according to announcements from EAMC, state officials and the Mobile County health department.

Three deaths were reported earlier this week by the Alabama Department of Public Health in Lauderdale, Jackson and Madison counties. One death was reported by the Mobile County Department of Public Health and later confirmed by state health officials.

The state health department has yet to release ages of victims or concrete hospitalization numbers, though some hospitals around the state have begun issuing their own and pleas for supplies.

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In Montgomery County, Baptist Health said it had treated eight total patients for coronavirus but six of those have since been released by the weekend. On Monday, there were 22 confirmed cases, according to the ADPH website.

Jefferson County, the state's most populated county, had 246 cases, Alabama's most.

Hospitals across the state have expressed concern about the capacity of the state’s health system to support treatment of the global pandemic. Many doctors have stressed Alabamians to stay home regardless of a governor’s order demanding it or not.

Confirmed cases nationwide neared 143,000 Monday morning — the highest total in the world — and the U.S. has more than 2,500 deaths related to the virus.

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