Thousands of new coronavirus cases reported in Georgia

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Thousands of new Covid-19 cases reported in Georgia

From CNN's Pamela Kirkland 

Georgia's health department has reported 2,674 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday.  

The statewide Covid-19 total is now 228,668.

The department also reported 83 new coronavirus-related deaths, which brings the total in the state to 4,538.  

According to the department of health, the state reported 136 deaths Tuesday – its most in a single day since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic – and another 109 deaths Wednesday.

Note: These numbers were released by the Georgia Department of Public Health and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.

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Fauci says presence of symptoms long after coronavirus recovery is "very disturbing"

From CNN's Lauren Mascarenhas

The presence of ongoing symptoms after coronavirus recovery is “very disturbing,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told actor Matthew McConaughey in an interview on Instagram on Thursday.

“We're starting to see more and more people who apparently recover from the actual viral part of it, and then weeks later, they feel weak, they feel tired, they feel sluggish, they feel short of breath,” said Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert. “It's a chronic projection forward of symptoms, even though the virus is gone, and we think that's probably an immunological effect.”

Fauci said that although health experts are learning more about the virus every week, there is much that is still unknown. 

“It's very disturbing, because if this is true for a lot of people, then just recovering from this may not be OK."