Nearly 600 coronavirus cases reported in Columbus, surrounding counties. Here’s a breakdown.

Muscogee County and its surrounding areas surpassed 500 coronavirus, or COVID-19, cases Wednesday according to data from Georgia’s Department of Public Health.

A total of 591 cases were reported in our immediate area, according to the 7 p.m. update from DPH.

The numbers are expected to continue to increase with each update, according to a press release sent from the DPH on Tuesday. This is attributed to testing becoming more and more widespread across the state, said Kathleen Toomey, DPH commissioner.

Here’s a breakdown by county:

• Sumter 181
  
  

• Muscogee 94

• Randolph 86

• Crisp 54

• Troup 49

• Dooly 28

• Meriwether 18

• Harris 15

• Clay 13

• Macon 11

• Schley 10

• Marion 7

• Talbot 7

• Taylor 5

• Stewart 4

• Quitman 4

• Webster 3

• Chattahoochee 2

A full county-by-county breakdown from the Georgia Department of Public Health can be found here.

Georgia’s West-Central Health District covers 16 counties: Chattahoochee, Clay, Crisp, Dooly, Harris, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor and Webster.

Troup and Meriwether counties are not in the West-Central Health District but because of proximity to Columbus, the Ledger-Enquirer will track those numbers as well.

This story was originally published April 8, 2020 at 12:23 PM.