Muscogee County and surrounding areas report over 1,600 coronavirus cases. Here’s a list.
Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 1,615 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus as of the 7 p.m. Wednesday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health, an increase of 22 from noon.
There are now 86 COVID-19-related deaths in the 18-county area.
Muscogee County reports 294 confirmed cases and seven deaths as of 7 p.m. Wednesday, an increase of one death since noon.
Here’s a breakdown by county of total cases and deaths:
- Sumter 378, 28
- Muscogee 294, 7
Crisp 163, 3
- Randolph 159, 19
- Troup 145, 4
- Dooly 122, 9
- Macon 74, 3
- Harris 59, 2
- Meriwether 54, 1
- Marion 41, 1
Talbot 24, 1
Stewart 23, 0
- Clay 21, 2
- Taylor 17, 2
- Schley 16, 1
Chattahoochee 11, 0
Webster 10, 2
- Quitman 4,1
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 29, 2020 at 1:50 PM.