Gainesville Latino Community Comes Together To Address COVID-19 Outbreak

A health worker displays the packaged swab used on patients. The coronavirus is hitting Hall County’s Latino community particularly hard.

Elaine Thompson / Associated Press file

Hall County recently emerged as a new hot spot for COVID-19 cases.

As of Friday, health officials confirmed 2,265 COVID-19 cases in the northeastern Georgia county, which is often called the “poultry capital of the world.”

And the virus is hitting the region’s Latino community particularly hard.