Daily report – COVID-19 – 7.2.20

Statistics released today (7.2.20.20) for COVID-19 by the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) include:  10,602 confirmed and probable cases (+394 newly confirmed): 6,970 recovered (65.7%); 3,440 current (32.4%); and 192 deceased, no increase from yesterday (1.8%). There have been 131,996 total tested in Shelby County, 92% negative, 8% positive.  The percent of overall testing positivity rate in Shelby is 8.

Among nursing homes and facilities which serve vulnerable populations, there have been 66 deaths, no change from yesterday.  There have been no deaths reported from the Shelby County Division of Corrections and one employee death at the Shelby County Jail/201 Poplar Ave.

This information is from Joan Carr, public information officer for the SCHD.

In his COVID-19 update yesterday (7.1.20) Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said, “Recently, I mentioned how much testing Tennessee and Shelby County are doing relative to other parts of the country. As you can see in the chart below, we’ve performed close to 130,000 tests through June, and we’re going to do even more.”

Link to his report: https://covid19.memphistn.gov/news/

The Health Department’s hotline number is 833-943-1658 and is answered daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  After-hours calls are returned on the next business day.  Total calls received since the line was activated March 12^th:  7,199; total calls yesterday: 88.

SCHD website with more data: www.shelbytnhealth.com/COVID19Data

The most recent numbers for the state are:  45,315 total cases (+1,806); 28,283 recovered (+684); 609 deaths (+5); 2,715 hospitalized (+50); and 817,522 tested (+24,743).

TDH website: https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov.html

COViD-19 data from Shelby County, Metro Memphis and Tennessee from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC):  https://uthsc.edu/coronavirus/local-data/