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Burke County continues to be among the Georgia counties with the highest testing positivity rates at 21.3%. That means more than one in five tests for the COVID 19 virus in Burke County are positive. The number of local cases over the last two weeks has moved up to 58, giving the county a cumulative total of 1044 confirmed cases. […]

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