Shelby County now averaging almost 700 new COVID cases per day
Alex Langford receives a COVID vaccination in the mobile vaccine unit Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 at Carpenter Art Garden in Binghampton. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
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Shelby County is currently averaging 687 new COVID-19 cases per day for the past seven days.
But today, Thursday, Aug. 19, the Shelby County Health Department reported 915 new coronavirus cases and no new coronavirus-related deaths.
There are 7,701 reported active cases in Shelby County.
The county is also averaging 1,801 new COVID-19 vaccinations per day.
Shelby County is 63.7% of the way to local leaders’ goal to having 700,000 people vaccinated against COVID-19; 445,744 people are vaccinated in Shelby County.
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