Lowndes holding at 20 COVID-19 cases

Published 6:55 pm Sunday, March 29, 2020

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VALDOSTA – Another update revealed no change in the number of Lowndes County COVID-19 patients.

Lowndes did not experience an increase in COVID-19 patients, holding at 20 patients with confirmed diagnoses of the coronavirus at 6:28 p.m. Sunday, as reported by the Georgia Department of Public Health’s daily COVID-19 report.

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At 7 p.m. Sunday, Nine of the Lowndes coronavirus patients were hospitalized at South Georgia Medical Center, according to the SGMC website daily COVID-19 update.

Six of the SGMC COVID-19 patients had been discharged and 12 hospitalized patients were still waiting on testing results as of 7 p.m. Sunday.

Only one SGMC patient had died from COVID-19.

The GDPH website updates daily at noon and 7 p.m and the SGMC website updates daily at noon.