Alabama surpasses 10,000 COVID-19 cases

Posted: May 11, 2020 / 03:41 PM CDT / Updated: May 11, 2020 / 10:26 PM CDT

(WKRG) — Alabama now has 10,009 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to Alabama’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard.

401 people in Alabama have died from COVID-19.

Mobile County has 1,466 confirmed cases and 90 people have died. Baldwin County has 221 cases and five people have died.

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