Coronavirus Updates: Georgia Keep Growing As Report Projects 5,000 Deaths By August

Xuan Le wears as mask as she cleans her work station as Envy Nail Bar prepared to open last month, in Savannah, Georgia.

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The Georgia Department of Health has confirmed more than 31,000 of coronavirus cases and 1,336 deaths statewide.

And public health experts say that as Georgia axes shelter-in-place precautions and continues to reopen the economy, those numbers are going to keep climbing.

A new report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation projects nearly 5,000 COVID-19 deaths statewide by August.