The Tennessee Department of Health confirmed there 170 more positive cases of COVID-19 in the state Saturday than there were Friday afternoon.
According to data from the department, COVID-19 cases in Tennessee rose from 1,203 Friday to 1,373 by 2 p.m. Saturday. There were 103 hospitalizations Friday and that number rose to 118 Saturday. The number of COVID-19 deaths in the state remained at six from Friday to Saturday.
NewsChannel 5 is reporting that the total of COVID-19 cases in the state is currently at 1,512 and that there have been seven COVID-19 deaths.
The news station is keeping an independent count of cases in the state, using information from both the TN Dept. of Health and local health agencies.
The TN Dept. of Health said online the data on their website “changes rapidly as labs conduct tests and identify new cases. Labs assign those cases to a county or leave that information blank. Metro and regional health departments then determine the appropriate county of jurisdiction during their public health investigation…Cases among Tennessee residents are counted by their county of residence.”
The U.S. has 115,547 confirmed case of COVID-19, according to data from the Center of System Science and Engineering from John Hopkins University. There are 1,891 deaths reported, with 921 recoveries.