Today, September 16, the Tennessee Department of Health announced that Cheatham County has a total of 775 confirmed positive COVID-19 tests. This is up 10 cases from yesterday.
Recoveries/inactive cases are at 718- up just 1 from yesterday. This brings the current active case total up to 47.
The number of related local deaths stands at 10.
There have been 9, 617 negative tests taken to-date.
The Cheatham County Health Department has FREE COVID-19 testing available Monday through Friday. For more information, Call 615-792-4318.
* The reason behind the drastic change in recent numbers being reported is because the state is no longer reporting "recovered" cases. Instead, they will report the number of "inactive/recovered" cases. The new numbers reflect cases that are at least 14 days beyond their illness onset date and who are not deceased.
