Metro Nashville

The city's status of key metrics continues to show 'less than satisfactory' for transmission rate and 14-day new case trend, and Davidson County remains under Mayor John Cooper's Safer at Home order through May 8 at this time. On Friday, Nashville reported 2,832 confirmed cases. By today, that number had risen to 3,191 - a jump of 359 over the weekend and an increase of 165 in the last 24 hours. However, there were no new deaths over the weekend with the county remaining at 27 and the case rate remaining basically steady at 10.5%. During the Monday briefing, it was reported 1,616 Nashvillians have recovered from COVID-19.

Tennessee State

State confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported as 13,571 during today's briefing, an increase of 394 since yesteday.

Number of deaths rose to 219 (increase of 15 since Friday) with 1,143 hospitalizations (up 8 in 24 hours) and 6,081 recovered (an increase of 267 since yesterday). Currently, the state's known hospitalization rate is 13%, a significant increase over the 9.36% of hospitalized cases tracked last Friday. Deaths continue to total right about 1.6 percent of reported cases.

Davidson and Shelby counties lead state case counts, by far. There are also significant numbers of cases in the Nashville MSA with Sumner County reporting 663 cases, Rutherford reporting 603, Williamson reporting 431 and Wilson reporting 276. Nearby Trousdale County, where there was a large prison outbreak of COVID-19, is reporting 1,348 confirmed cases.

The state wrapped up three weekends of additional drive-through testing sites this past weekend. To date, 211,443 have been tested in Tennessee.