The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Cherokee County dropped from 12 to 11 on Saturday following an announcement that some information may been reported inaccurately.

The Alabama Department of Public Health announced Saturday that previous reports of positive coronavirus case numbers in Alabama were wrong.

The discovery was made Friday, the department said.

In a series of tweets, the department says “an outside entity mistakenly marked (coronavirus) lab results as positive when in fact they were negative.”

Numbers of postive cases in all of Alabama, and including counties such as Cherokee, now have dropped.

The department says it is working to correct the errors, nothing that “it could take a few days.”

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