After recording a single-day record of 64 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the Georgia Department of Health reported that Bulloch County more than doubled that total Friday with 133 confirmed COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour period.

The two-day total of 197 cases was slightly more than the 183 total cases reported in Bulloch County on June 23 – three months after the first reported local case. The 133 new cases reported Friday brings the total number of confirmed cases in Bulloch to 1,743 since the start of the pandemic.

Bulloch County Public Safety/Emergency Management Agency Director Ted Wynn said East Georgia Regional Medical Center staff were caring for 21 patients Friday, six of whom were on ventilators.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Bulloch County has reported 112 hospitalizations and 21 deaths. Bulloch County EMS has transported a total of 99 people with probable COVID-19 and 92 with confirmed cases, he said.

In Georgia, the state reported 2,383 new cases Friday, pushing the total number of confirmed cases to 265,372. The state reported 79 deaths Friday, raising the death toll to 5,471.

In the United States, 181,186 Americans have died from coronavirus, and the U.S. has recorded 5,889,652 confirmed cases, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.