Friday’s totals brought Georgia a new single-day record for new COVID-19 cases. The Georgia Department of Public Health reported 26,033 combined confirmed and probable coronavirus infections.
Overall the state, with a population of 10.8 million, has recorded nearly 2 million infections throughout the pandemic as of this week.
It’s not clear yet whether omicron’s big spike in cases will also lead to record levels of hospitalizations and death, as the delta variant did over the summer. Hospitals will find out in the next two weeks. The number hospitalized with COVID in Georgia was 4,658 on Friday.
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