Muscogee County and surrounding areas report over 1,270 coronavirus cases. Here’s a list.

Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 1,276 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus as of the 7 p.m. Monday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health.

There are now 59 coronavirus-related deaths in the 18-county area.

Muscogee County reports 229 confirmed cases and four deaths, as of 7 p.m. Monday.

Muscogee ranks No. 16 statewide for total coronavirus cases. Sumter County is the only other local county that ranks higher (No. 9) with 332 total cases.

Here’s a breakdown by county of total cases and deaths:

• Sumter 332, 18

• Muscogee 229, 4

• Randolph 145, 15

• Crisp 125, 2

• Troup 100, 4

• Dooly 71, 5

• Macon 53, 1

• Meriwether 46, 0

• Harris 45, 2

• Marion 29, 1

• Clay 20, 2

• Talbot 19, 1

• Stewart 17, 0

• Schley 16, 1

• Taylor 13, 2

• Chattahoochee 7, 0

• Webster 6, 0

• Quitman 3, 1

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 their proximity to Columbus, the Ledger-Enquirer will track those numbers as well.

This story was originally published April 20, 2020 at 12:24 PM.

Lauren Gorla

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

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Lauren Gorla is the senior editor of the Ledger-Enquirer. She joined the newsroom in 2016 as a digital producer and has also done local reporting in Columbus. She graduated with a journalism degree from Georgia Southern University, where she also worked for the student newspaper. In 2019, she helped oversee coverage of multiple award-winning stories including the Beauregard tornadoes, community features and other breaking news. Support my work with a digital subscription