Muscogee County area reports 15 new COVID-19 cases overnight. Here’s a list.
Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 1,689 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus as of the 12 p.m. Saturday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health, an increase of 15 since 7 p.m. Friday.
There are now 86 COVID-19-related deaths in the 18-county area. Muscogee County now reports 319 confirmed cases and 7 deaths.
Here’s a breakdown by county of total cases and deaths:
- Sumter 383, 28
- Muscogee 319, 7
Crisp 167, 3
- Randolph 163, 19
- Troup 151, 4
- Dooly 131, 9
- Macon 81, 3
- Harris 61, 2
- Meriwether 54, 0
- Marion 42, 1
Talbot 26, 1
Stewart 25, 0
- Clay 25, 3
- Taylor 18, 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 99
Muscogee 57
- Troup 44
Dooly 35
- Crisp 33
- Macon 28
Randolph 27
- 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.