Sunday Total Numbers: 122,712 Total Cases; 1,223 Total Deaths

by: WKRN Web Staff

WKRN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) The Tennessee Department of Health hasconfirmed additional cases and deaths related to COVID-19 across the state on Sunday, August 9.

The health department reported 2,127 new cases, bringing the state to 122,712 total cases, a 2% day-to-day increase since Saturday. Of the total cases, 120,911 are confirmed and 1,801 are probable.

Tennessees seven-day new cases average now sits at 1,869 additional cases per day.

TDH also confirmed 8 additional deaths, bringing Tennessee up to 1,223 total deaths.

Out of the confirmed positive cases, 80,997 have recovered, an increase of 657 recoveries.

The latest number of hospitalizations went up by 42 to 5,304. A note on the departments website states this total is an indication of the number of patients that were ever hospitalized during their illness and not an indication of the number of patients currently hospitalized.

Of the 122,712 cases, 59,804 are male (49%), 61,562 are female (50%), and 1,346 are pending (1%).

Tennessee has conducted 1,711,319 tests with 1,588,607 negative results. The percentage for positive cases remains around 7.2%. Sundays update added 27,597 tests to the states total.

Earlier Sunday, Metro Public Health Department officialsreported22,904 cases of COVID-19 in Davidson County.

On July 28, Nashville Mayor John Cooper announcedthe orderclosing all bars in Nashville and requiring restaurants serving alcohol to shut down by 10 p.m. dailyhas been extended through at least mid-August.

All transpotainment vehicles are banned from the streets of Nashville and Davidson Countyas of July 31, regardless of whether there is alcohol on-board, according to the Metro Public Health Department.

Metro Police saidthey will issue citations to anyone who defies Metro Public Health ordersby not wearing masks. The news comes after weeks of criticism aimed at Nashville leaders fornot ticketing crowds of maskless people partying downtown. On Thursday, Metro police issued 16 civil citations to people on Broadway for violating Nashvilles mask mandate. On Friday, a man was arrested on Broadway after refusing to wear a face mask, according to Metro Police.

On Friday, Cooper announced Public Health Order 10 that prohibits open consumption, possession, and late-night to-go sales of alcoholic beverages in downtown and midtown Nashville.

Nashville is still in the modified Phase Two, but the city could advance to Phase Three of the Roadmap to Reopening again in a few weeks, which would mean bigger crowds near bars and restaurants downtown. Some Metro council members are floating around anidea they believe would boost business while reopening the area safely.

On July 28, Governor Bill Leeannounced the State of Tennessees recommendations to reopen schools for the 2020-2021 school year.The governors plan for re-opening schoolsis getting criticized by some state leaders.

The Williamson County School district is starting the year with one of its campuses closed when it was scheduled to have students learning in-person.

The director of the Tennessee Association of School Nurses said frustration was the best word to describe how school nurses felt as students head back to classrooms across the state this week.

Putnam County Schools released an update on Friday regarding the first week of school during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Director of Schools Corby King, one student at Cookeville High School this week tested positive for COVID-19 and was in close contact with other students. Those students have been reportedly contacted and have been placed on a 14-day quarantine.

Also on Friday, Coffee County Schools announced it will move to a hybrid schedule beginning Wednesday, August 12due to anincreasein active COVID-19 cases.

News 2 digs deeper into how schools are planning to move forward safely for the new academic year. See how other districts around Middle Tennessee are handling everything from classroom concerns to the future of sports in our special series. Click here to see more.

Lee also announced Executive Order No. 55 would include Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association member schools in an exception to contact sports restrictions.He officially signed the order on July 31.

The TSSAA said although contact practice is now permissible, regulations and requirements for practice and competition adoptedby the Board of Control at their July 22 meeting are still in place for all sports and must be followed.

A day after Lees announcement, school leaders in Davidson sent out a letter to all schools in the countyasking to cancel all sports and extracurricular activities until after Labor Day.

On the collegiate level, several conferences have released their plans for the season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Deborah Birx met with Governor Lee in Nashville on July 27.The Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force called for all Tennessee counties to issue mask mandates.Several counties have issued mask requirementsaround the state already.

A number of retailers and restaurants are also requiring masks while visiting their stores.See a full list of locations here.

In June, the Tennessee Department of Healthannounced changes to itsformat for sharing COVID-19 data. The departments total number of cases and total deaths now include both laboratory-confirmed cases and probable cases as defined in theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance case definitions. Learn more about the changes here.

Stay with News 2 for continuing coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Read more:

TDH: 2,127 new COVID-19 cases, 8 new deaths in Tennessee - WKRN News 2