January ended as Tennessee’s deadliest month of the pandemic. The first month of 2021 accounted for more than a fourth of Tennessee’s total COVID-19 deaths with more deaths reported than during the first seven months of the pandemic combined which was 2,454 through Sept. 30, 2020.
January saw an average of 88 deaths per day while 2,743 deaths were reported in the first month of 2021.
Total deaths in area counties since the pandemic began in March of last year through February 2, 2021:
Bedford=103
Cannon=24
Coffee=100
Franklin=71
Grundy=24
Lincoln=54
Moore=11
Rutherford=323
Warren=63
