Latest Atlanta coronavirus news: DPH confirms 42 COVID-19 deaths since noon

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SUNDAY’S TOP STORIES

• The Department of Public Health reported 18,157 COVID19 cases and 681 deaths at 7 p.m., both of which were fewer than its noon numbers. Asia Simone Burns reported the update.
• City of Stone Mountain officials are calling on Stone Mountain Park to shut down some of its entrances over worries that parkgoers are crowding city streets during the coronavirus pandemic, J.D. Capelouto reported.

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