Hamilton County reported a record 555 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, with 203 hospitalized patients and a record 63 in intensive care units. Ten others were in the hospital with suspected COVID. Of those hospitalized, 106 are residents of the county.
The new total of cases in Hamilton County is 26,718.
There were four more deaths from the virus in the county on Tuesday, three men and one woman, three were white, one was black, one between the ages of 21-30, two between the ages of 71-80 and one over the 81 years, bringing the total to 251.
The number of people who have recovered from the coronavirus in Hamilton County is 22,416, which is 84 percent, and there are 4,051 active cases.
The number of coronavirus cases in Tennessee is 541,240 on Wednesday, with 7,221 new cases.
There were 111 more deaths from the virus, for a total of 6,380, officials from the state Department of Health said.
The state currently has 2,934 people hospitalized with the virus, 46 more than on Tuesday.
The test numbers are over 5.386 million across the state.