For the first time this week, there is an increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Athens: the Georgia Department of Public Health says there are now 208 cases of COVID 19 in Clarke County, up from 200 Thursday. The number of coronavirus deaths in Athens holds steady at 13. Oconee County now has 103 cases, with officially still three coronavirus deaths; there is, however, word of a fourth death from COVID in Oconee County. Oglethorpe County now has five deaths and 56 cases; there are 32 cases and one death in Madison County. Jackson County has 139 confirmed cases and three coronavirus deaths.
Pat Dye, a former Georgia Bulldog football player who rose to national prominence as a coach at Auburn, is hospitalized in Atlanta, receiving treatment for coronavirus.
The city of Gainesville is beginning a phased in reopening of Gainesville government offices that had been closed because of coronavirus.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announces what she says is a 5-phase plan to lift coronavirus restrictions that have been in place in Atlanta.
Vice President Mike Pence is in Atlanta today, meeting with Governor Brian Kemp to talk about Georgia’s economic reopening. He will also be in Norcross, at the headquarters of the Georgia-based Waffle House restaurant chain. They will be joined by Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler.
Georgia's jobless rate hit 11.9 percent in April, up from 4.6 percent in March, with the state Labor Department blaming almost all the job losses on the economic fallout from the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Governor Brian Kemp, in a weekly news conference, acknowledges recent mistakes in the reporting of some coronavirus data.
The Georgia Department of Public Health says there are now 40,663 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state and 1,775 deaths from COVID 19.