Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health are telling Georgians to stay away from hospital emergency departments if all they want is a COVID-19 test.
With the rise in COVID case numbers locally, the Hall County Sheriff's Office has made the decision to close all community precincts to the public until further notice.
Georgia broke the state's record for the number of test-confirmed COVID-19 cases Tuesday, with an extremely rapid rise passing the peaks previously set in January.
As police continue to look for a suspect, the Athens-Clarke County coroner has released the name of the pedestrian struck and killed by a car on an Athens sidewalk last week.