Lowndes reaches 50 COVID-19 deaths; SGMC reports 54 virus patients

Published 3:30 pm Thursday, August 13, 2020

Source: South Georgia Medical Center

VALDOSTA — Two more COVID-19-related deaths have been reported in Lowndes County.

Fifty people have died from COVID-19 in Lowndes, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health daily status report Thursday. 

At South Georgia Medical Center, 80 patients have died from the virus since the outbreak of COVID-19, according to the hospital’s report.

Not all SGMC patients are Lowndes County residents and some patients who have been transferred from other regional hospitals have tested positive for COVID-19, according to past reports.

In a strange development, Lowndes COVID-19 cases decreased by 16 Thursday, according to the GDPH report. The department did not immediately respond to comment.

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The county has reported 3,257 cases since the pandemic began, according to the GDPH report.

After hovering at about 70 coronavirus patients for three weeks, South Georgia Medical Center has seen a decline in COVID-19 patients during the past week. The hospital reported treating 54 COVID-19 patients Thursday, according to its daily report.

So far, 153 Lowndes residents have been hospitalized due to COVID-19, since the start of the outbreak, according to the report.

The South Health District has performed 22,567 coronavirus tests throughout its 10 counties as of Thursday, according to the district COVID-19 website.

SGMC has discharged 488 COVID-19 patients – numbers reflecting the total patients discharged since the start of the pandemic — and had no patients waiting for testing results, according to the SGMC report.

For more data on Lowndes and the surrounding counties, The Valdosta Daily Times has created a database to track COVID-19 across the South Health District.

To reach the database, click the link here.