Albany leaders give Thursday COVID-19 update

ALBANY, Ga. — Albany and Dougherty county leaders announcing today that the curve of COVID-19 cases are continuing to flatten.

The announcement being made at Thursday’s COVID-19 briefing.

Right now Dougherty County has had a total of 1,644 cases and 131 deaths.

Phoebe Chief Medical Officer, Dr Stephen Kitchen addressed the ongoing downward trends of Coronavirus positive cases over the last few weeks.

Dr. Kitchen told those in attendance, “Today, at Phoebe Putney, that number has declined from a peak of 160 to 52, and I think 62 for our health system at large.”

While Dougherty County Chairman, Christopher Cohilas said, “We have seen the rate of infection greatly decrease from rates that were frankly, astronomical, at the very beginning of the injection of this virus into our community, under circumstances that frankly, I don’t think communities would recover as quickly as we have.”

The Phoebe Putney Health System says more than 300 COVID-19 inpatients have recovered.