Muscogee County and surrounding areas report 1,497 coronavirus cases. Here’s a list.

Editor’s note: While the Ledger-Enquirer reported a fifth death in Muscogee County related to COVID-19, that death was not included in DPH’s 7 p.m. update.

Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 1,497 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus as of the 7 p.m. Sunday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health.

There are now 71 coronavirus-related deaths in the 18-county area.

The department of public health reported 275 confirmed cases and four deaths in Muscogee County on Sunday.

Muscogee ranks No. 17 statewide for total coronavirus cases. Sumter County is the only other local county that ranks higher (No. 11) with 356 total cases.

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

• Sumter 356, 21

• Muscogee 275, 4

• Randolph 153, 19

• Crisp 153, 2

• Troup 126, 4

• Dooly 112, 7

• Macon 70, 3

• Harris 56, 2

• Meriwether 49, 0

• Marion 38, 1

• Talbot 21, 1

• Clay 20, 2

• Stewart 17, 0

• Schley 16, 1

• Taylor 16, 2

• Chattahoochee 8, 0

• Webster 8, 1

• 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 26, 2020 at 12:36 PM.

Tim Chitwood

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

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Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.