Muscogee County No. 15 in state for total coronavirus cases. Here’s a breakdown of our area

Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 885 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, as of the 7 p.m. Monday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health. That’s an increase of 38 cases since noon Monday.

Muscogee County now reports 167 confirmed cases following the state’s noon update. No new deaths have been reported since 7 p.m. Saturday.

Muscogee also ranks No. 15 statewide for total coronavirus cases. Sumter County is the only other local county that ranks higher (No. 10) with 251 total cases.

Here’s a breakdown by county:

• Sumter 251

• Muscogee 167

• Randolph 122

• Crisp 79

• Troup 62

• Dooly 51

• Macon 29

• Meriwether 23

• Harris 22

• Clay 16

• Marion 15

• Schley 12

• Talbot 9

• Taylor 9

• Stewart 8

• Chattahoochee 4

• Quitman 3

• Webster 3

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 13, 2020 at 12:25 PM.