The number of coronavirus cases in the state grew by 1,685 from Saturday into Sunday.

The (Sunday) July 19th 10:00am numbers from the Alabama Department of Public Health indicated the state at that point had had a total of 65,865 coronavirus cases – with 29,736 presumed to have recovered.  The ADPH said that 1,254 people have thus far died from coronavirus.

According to the latest data for Cherokee County – a total of 166 confirmed cases have been reported with a total of seven deaths resulting from the illness.

Cherokee County EMA Director Shawn Rogers stated over the weekend, when that number of confirmed cases totaled 159 thus far, there were only 31 active cases

Out of a total of 600 tests administered during the past 14 days a total of 67 positive results have been returned locally.

Daily updates are usually released around 10:00am; those are posted on the ADPH COVID-19 Data & Surveillance Dashboard on the right-hand side of our news site at weisradio.com