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    LATEST GEORGIA FIGURES (updated Aug. 3, 3 p.m.): Deaths: 3,842 | Confirmed cases: 195,435 | More detail here


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    Gwinnett County Public Schools officials said that there have been about 260 cases of coronovirus reported in the last three says at schools throughout the district. AJC file photo
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    A Walmart pharmacist instructs a motorist how to do a self swab as Georgia Army National Guard Pfc. Joshua Tucker looks on at a mobile COVID-19 drive-through testing site serving rural stretches of Georgia last month. National Guard teams helped staff Georgia's testing strategy. (Curtis Compton/Curtis.Compton@ajc.com)
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    Mary Williams, a parent who is opposed to mandatory face mask requirements, talks with Gwinnett County Public Schools board member Steven Knudsen before the start of the regular board meeting in Suwanee on July 16. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    Brown's Pools employee Penny Isbell cleans one of their display pools at their Dallas, Georgia, location July 31, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    A doorman checks customers' temperatures as they wait in line to enter the Sandbar in downtown Athens. City officials hope to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the college town by stopping alcohol sales at 10 p.m. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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    Judge halts commission’s ‘last call’ ordinance on Athens bar sales
    Gwinnett County Public School teachers protest in-person school on July 20. Before their rally began school leaders announced that classes will be online. Later they added that all teachers must report to school buildings to work. WSBTV
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    March 18, 2020 Atlanta: A sign says it all to passing motorists at Murphey Candler Elementary School at 6775 S Goddard Road in Lithonia, DeKalb County on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Gov. Brian Kemp ordered the closure of all public elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools in Georgia that began Wednesday and will continue through the end of the month as the state scrambles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. School districts accounting for more than 1.7 million of Georgia‰Ûªs 1.8 million students had already suspended classes, though some rural schools have remained open. And most Georgia colleges shifted to online coursework last week. Just over two weeks after the first confirmed coronavirus case in Georgia, much of the state is practicing social distancing, with restaurants, theaters and other social gathering places closing down or reducing hours in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    DeKalb high school athletes tests positive for COVID-19
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    Students at Dobbs Elementary School in Atlanta complete a design activity as part of the Atlanta Community Schoolyards project on Oct 17, 2019. HANDOUT/Brady Hummel
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    November 30, 2018 Atlanta - Amanda Marmins, a volunteer at Souper Jenny, finishes the preparation for one box of soup that will help feed kids in the metro area. RYON HORNE / RHORNE@AJC.COM
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    Sally Hoynacki does a window visit with her mom Edna Taylor who lives in a nursing home in Dahlonega. CONTRIBUTED
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    Publix stores are among major retailers in metro Atlanta that have recently set requirements for customers to wear masks in stores. MATT KEMPNER / AJC
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    A look at major coronavirus developments over the past week
    As of late July the region anchored by Tift Regional Medical Center and the region anchored by Athens hospitals have no more critical care beds left as the coronavirus pandemic spreads again within Georgia. (PHOTO by HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM)
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    Athens, Tifton hospitals run out of beds for critical patients
    Cuthbert is the county seat for Randolph County, which has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Randolph had the highest county infection rate in Georgia in April. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Rachel Pinkerton lights candles before a memorial service for Kyle Gregory at Brookwood High School on Friday evening July 24, 2020. Gregory, who died from COVID-19, played football at Brookwood and then went to Georgia Southern University. Pinkerton was a classmate at both schools. (Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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    Guards: South Georgia prison riot a bad omen for other facilities
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    High School Sports Blog
    Updated: GHSA to discuss health commissioner’s concerns
    Local News
    Map: Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated Aug. 3, 3 p.m.)
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    Herman Cain dies from COVID-19
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    James Cornacchia, 42, a police officer for Georgia Tech, died June 1 from COVID-19. GEORGIA TECH POLICE DEPARTMENT
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    Gloria Jameson pictured in her hometown Gloucester, Massachusetts, last summer. Her family and friends gathered there to celebrate her 90th birthday. Jameson, a longtime employee at Atlanta s St. Pius X Catholic High School, died on April 16 from COVID-19. FAMILY PHOTO
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    Longtime St. Pius employee, champion of underdogs dies from COVID-19
    Pastor George Howard Terrell, 73 of Douglasville, died May 1, 2020 from COVID-19. CONTRIBUTED
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    Douglasville pastor was a faithful servant of God and family
    Margaret Stancil pictured in summer 2019 after picking tomatoes from her garden at her home in Ball Ground. FAMILY PHOTO
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    COVID-19 claims longtime Ball Ground resident, avid traveler
    Remembered for her many talents and a lifetime of entrepreneurship, Martha Mangold was most proud of her family.
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    Michael Murrell (right) and his uncle, Victor Bruinton.
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