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Georgia Coronavirus Statistics Stay Steady Going Into Weekend

October 10, 2020

ATLANTA, GA — The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 330,269 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. According to the health department’s website, that includes 1,279 newly confirmed cases over the last 24 hours.

Georgia also reported 7,393 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 46 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. In addition, the state reported 29,611 hospitalizations — 101 more than the day before — and 5,508 admissions so far to intensive-care units.

No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta and other metropolitan areas continue to have the highest number of positives, with Fulton County still in the lead.

Fulton County: 28,942 cases — 108 new
Gwinnett County: 28,712 cases — 119 new
Cobb County: 20,439 cases — 72 new
DeKalb County: 19,613 cases — 42 new

Georgia health department says state has given 3M coronavirus tests

October 3, 2020

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The Georgia Department of Public Health on Saturday reported 29 additional deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 7,134.

According to the state Department of Public Health, 3,001,381 tests have been performed in the state, which had a 10.1% positivity rate, as of Saturday.

The state Department of Public Health on Saturday reported an additional 1,484 confirmed COVID-19 cases. Of those cases, 27 were reported in the six Southeast Georgia counties tracked by News4Jax.

As of Saturday, a total of 322,078 confirmed cases had been reported by the state Department of Public Health.

(Note: There are variations in the day-to-day data reported by the Georgia Department of Public Health. Data are based on available information at the time of the report and may not reflect all cases or tests performed in Georgia on that particular day. At times, cases and deaths are removed from the overall running total

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp extends health emergency to November 9

September 30, 2020

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ATLANTA — Editor’s Note: The video in this story is from Kemp’s previous executive order on nursing home visitation.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has again extended COVID-19 restrictions and the public health state of emergency.

In a new executive order signed Wednesday, Kemp extended all current COVID-19 restrictions until 11:59 p.m. on October 15.

The public health state of emergency is extended until November 9.

There are two minor changes made in his latest order, which include allowing workers at restaurants and bars to return to work once they have been symptom-free for 24 following a confirmed positive or suspected COVID-19 case.

ACT/SAT test score deadlines have also been extended for HOPE and Zell scholarship eligibility.

Kemp first declared a public health state of emergency on March 14, and it has been continuously extended since then.

In March, he said the point of the emergency declaration was to “allow the

WHO and European Union support COVID-19 training for medical personnel in Georgia to improve health system readiness

September 30, 2020

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One hundred and forty health workers from across Georgia – frontline responders to the pandemic – received specialized training to effectively respond to COVID-19 cases while ensuring their own safety and preventing further transmission.

Ambulance doctors, nurses and emergency vehicle drivers learned standard operating procedures for preventing and controlling infection during the transportation of patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases. The Emergency Situations Coordination and Urgent Assistance Center conducted the trainings within the framework of the Solidarity for Health initiative implemented by WHO and funded by the European Union (EU).

Additionally, a special protocol was developed for mitigating the risk of infection among health workers exposed to COVID-19.

“Patients may not exhibit COVID-19 symptoms, increasing the risk of infection for medical personnel, especially frontline responders. This is why I keep reminding my staff to always use personal protective equipment, so that medical personnel do not further the spread of

Georgia health officials withholding information on coronavirus infections at schools, report says

September 30, 2020

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Auschwitz director offers to serve time in place of 13-year-old Nigerian sentenced to 10 years for blasphemy

The director of the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland has offered to serve time for a Nigerian child who was convicted of blasphemy and ordered to spend ten years in prison by a Sharia court . In an open letter, Piotr Cywinski asked Nigeria’s President to intervene and pardon 13-year-old Omar Farouq for the conviction. “As the director of the Auschwitz memorial, which commemorates the victims and preserves the remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where children were imprisoned and murdered, I cannot remain indifferent to this disgraceful sentence for humanity,” he wrote. Omar Farouq was arrested earlier this year by religious police in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city, after he had a ‘blasphemous’ conversation with an older man. His conviction by a religious court has provoked condemnation by the

Georgia court allows lawsuit against sperm bank to proceed

September 28, 2020

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The Normans bought sperm from Xytex, and Wendy Norman gave birth to a son in 2002. As the boy got older, the Normans discovered he had inherited serious medical and mental health problems, some requiring multiple hospitalizations, according to the lawsuit.

The Normans sued Xytex, the medical director at its Atlanta location and an employee. The lawsuit seeks damages, alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation, battery, negligence unfair business practices, false advertising, unjust enrichment and other wrongdoing. They also sought to require Xytex to release information about the donor.

The Normans chose Donor #9623, whom Xytex promoted as one of its best donors, a Ph.D. candidate with an IQ of 160, a clean mental health history and no criminal record.

But they later discovered that wasn’t true. The donor had lied and had actually been hospitalized repeatedly for diagnosed mental health problems, including psychotic schizophrenia, the lawsuit says. He also had been