Coronavirus

Muscogee County and surrounding areas report over 1,370 coronavirus cases. Here’s a list.

Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 1,373 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus as of the 12 p.m. Thursday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health.

There are now 67 coronavirus-related deaths in the 18-county area.

Muscogee County reports 252 confirmed cases and four deaths, as of 12 p.m. Thursday.

Muscogee ranks No. 17 statewide for total coronavirus cases. Sumter County is the only other local county that ranks higher (No. 10) with 344 total cases.

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

  • Sumter 344, 21
  • Muscogee 252, 4

  • Randolph 149, 18

  • Crisp 133, 2

  • Troup 115, 4

  • Dooly 75, 6

  • Macon 66, 2

  • Harris 53, 2

  • Meriwether 48, 0

  • Marion 34, 1

  • Talbot 21, 1

  • Clay 19, 2

  • Stewart 17, 0

  • Schley 16, 1
  • Taylor 13, 2

  • Chattahoochee 8, 0

  • Webster 7, 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.

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Tandra Smith
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Tandra Smith is the Ledger-Enquirer’s newest reporter. A Georgia Southern University graduate, she’s covered everything from protests to hurricanes and more. Here in Columbus and the Chattahoochee Valley, she will focus on breaking and trending news.
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