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TDH: More than 5,000 new cases, over 25K people vaccinated in Tennessee SCHD: 9 new COVID-19 deaths, 611 new cases reported on Christmas Eve in Shelby Co. Memphis leaders issue COVID-19 holiday warning By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 24, 2020 at 11:14 AM CST - Updated December 24 at 2:46 PM SHELBY CO., Tenn. (WMC) - The Tennessee Department of Health identified 5,257 new COVID-19 cases and 51 deaths on Christmas Eve. The state now has had 546,497 coronavirus cases and 6,431 deaths re...

Current COVID-19 hospitalizations top 2,900 in Tennessee More than 6,600 active COVID-19 cases in Shelby Co. By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 23, 2020 at 10:51 AM CST - Updated December 23 at 3:47 PM SHELBY CO., Tenn. (WMC) - The Tennessee Department of Health says there are 7,221 new cases of COVID-19 and 111 additional virus deaths in Tennessee as of Wednesday. The daily positivity rate coming in at about 17.53%. TDH says there has been a total of 541,240 COVID-19 cases and over ...

133 additional virus-related deaths reported in Tennessee More than 900 new COVID-19 cases in Shelby Co. Shelby Co. COVID-19 Joint Task Force meeting, Dec. 22 By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 22, 2020 at 10:42 AM CST - Updated December 22 at 2:24 PM SHELBY CO., Tenn. (WMC) - Tennessee’s COVID-19 case count has increased by 4,441 cases in the past 24 hours and an additional 133 deaths have been reported. Data from the Tennessee Department of Health shows the daily positivity rate cam...

The Investigators: Available hospital beds plummet across Mid-South after post-Thanksgiving surge The Investigators: Staffing shortages push hospitals to the brink By Jessica Jaglois | December 21, 2020 at 10:26 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 6:35 AM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The number of available hospital beds is plummeting across the Mid-South after, what health officials call, a post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID-19 cases. Health officials in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee are asking...

Active COVID-19 cases top 85,000 in Tennessee More than 6,400 active COVID-19 cases in Shelby Co. By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 21, 2020 at 11:29 AM CST - Updated December 22 at 6:40 AM SHELBY CO., Tenn. (WMC) - The Tennessee Department of Health reported 9,891 new COVID-19 cases in the Volunteer State. Data shows there are over 85,000 active cases in Tennessee. There were also an additional 65 virus-related deaths within the last 24 hours. TDH says the state’s total case count i...

SCHD: 23 new COVID-19 deaths reported in Shelby Co. By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 18, 2020 at 11:11 AM CST - Updated December 18 at 1:05 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Countywide, 23 new COVID-19 deaths have been reported within the last 24 hours, a new record for Shelby County. A spokesperson for the Shelby County Health Department says the deaths occurred between Nov. 3 and Dec. 9. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 783 Shelby Countians have died from coronavirus. On Friday, 625 ne...

TDH: Record number of deaths reported, nearly 9,000 new cases in Tennessee The Tennessee Department of Health reported a record-high number of virus-related deaths Thursday. (Source: Tennessee Department of Health) By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 17, 2020 at 11:21 AM CST - Updated December 17 at 3:52 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Tennessee Department of Health identified 8,945 new COVID-19 cases and 177 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, making this the state’s record num...

Record COVID-19 case counts in Shelby County threaten to overwhelm hospitals Local hospital capacity in the "red zone" By Kendall Downing | December 16, 2020 at 5:37 PM CST - Updated December 16 at 5:55 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Thanksgiving surge of COVID-19 cases continues, and so does the strain on the area’s hospital systems. The Shelby County Health Department is reporting 779 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, with nearly 2,700 infections having been reported in the last th...

TDH: Record number of deaths reported, nearly 9,000 new cases in Tennessee Shelby Co. COVID-19 Joint Task Force meeting, Dec. 17 By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 17, 2020 at 11:21 AM CST - Updated December 17 at 3:52 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Tennessee Department of Health identified 8,945 new COVID-19 cases and 177 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, making this the state’s record number of virus-related deaths. Tennessee is inching towards 500,000 total cases with the n...

TDH: 11,410 new virus cases in Tennessee, 53 additional deaths ICU capacity down to 2% as 779 new COVID-19 cases reported in Shelby Co. By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 16, 2020 at 10:59 AM CST - Updated December 16 at 2:32 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Tennessee COVID-19 cases have increased by 11,410 cases within the last 24 hours with an additional 53 virus-related deaths. The Tennessee Department of Health also says there have been 68 more Tennesseans admitted to the hospital due to C...