MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Health Department reported a record 8,287 people in Shelby County are currently infected with COVID-19 on Sunday. The active case tracker adds the new cases of COVID-19 and subtracts the number of people who either recovered or died. The previous record was 7,970 active cases on January 12.
The health department also said that there were 1,118 new COVID-19 cases, the second highest on record. The highest was on December 17 with 1,163 new cases. They also reported 6 deaths. That brings the county to a total of 119,500 cases and 1,815 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
There are 451,229 people vaccinated in the county with 1,816 new vaccinations from Saturday.
In the state of Tennessee, as of August 19, there have been 977,230 total cases of COVID-19. Of those, only 16,296 cases have been among the vaccinated. That's 1.7% of all Tennessee cases.
