Muscogee County and surrounding areas report over 1,670 coronavirus cases. Here’s a list.
Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 1,674 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus as of the 7 p.m. Friday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health, an increase of 11 since 7 p.m.
There are now 86 COVID-19-related deaths in the 18-county area, a decrease of one (Meriwether County) since noon. Decreases can be attributed to reporting errors.
Muscogee County now reports 314 confirmed cases and seven deaths.
Here’s a breakdown by county of total cases and deaths:
- Sumter 382, 28
- Muscogee 314, 7
Crisp 167, 3
- Randolph 161, 19
- Troup 150, 4
- Dooly 129, 9
- Macon 81, 3
- Harris 61, 2
- Meriwether 54, 0
- Marion 42, 1
Talbot 26, 1
Stewart 24, 0
- Clay 23, 3
- Taylor 17, 2
- Schley 16, 1
Chattahoochee 12, 0
Webster 10, 2
- Quitman 5,1
Here’s a breakdown by county of total COVID-19 hospitalizations:
- Sumter 98
Muscogee 55
- Troup 43
Dooly 35
- Crisp 33
- Macon 28
Randolph 26
- Talbot 13
- Harris 9
- Meriwether 9
- Taylor 8
- Marion 8
Schley 7
- Stewart 7
- Schley 7
- Chattahoochee 5
- Webster 5
- Clay 4
- Quitman 3
A full county-by-county breakdown from the Georgia Department of Public Health can be found here. For a look at cases over time in the area, click 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 May 1, 2020 at 1:10 PM.