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The Alabama Department of Public Health reported 2,295 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, ending what has been the worst month for new cases in Alabama since the start of the pandemic. The state also reported a new coronavirus death on Monday.
Alabama has now reported a total of 249,524 cases of the virus since March, and 23% of those cases – 57,239 cases – occurred in November. This monthly total of cases is significantly higher than the previous record of just under 50,000 cases, set in July.
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The new cases bring Alabama’s 7-day average to 2,206 new cases per day. That number, which includes both confirmed and probable cases, has not fallen below 2,000 since it first crossed that threshold on November 15.
Monday’s total includes 2,080 confirmed and 215 probable cases. The main difference between confirmed and probable cases is the test used to find the case, with slower and more accurate PCR tests required for confirmed cases, and faster, sometimes less accurate antigen tests used for probable ones.
Prior to this month, the previous record was 1,918 cases per day, set on July 19.
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Jefferson County, home of Birmingham, added the most new cases on Monday with 346. It also added by far the most cases in November at 8,779. Just over 33,000 cases have been reported there since March. That means Jefferson County this month alone has recorded 27% of its cases since the start of the pandemic.
Madison County, home of Huntsville, added the second highest number of cases on Monday with 171, and also saw the state’s second highest monthly number of cases with 3,916, or about 29% of its total this year.
Nineteen of Alabama’s 67 counties added at least 1,000 new cases this month. You can see how many cases each county added on Monday, as well as for the entire month, in the table below.
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