Muscogee County and surrounding areas report over 1,700 coronavirus cases. Here’s a list.
Muscogee County and its surrounding areas have 1,713 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus as of the 7 p.m. Sunday update from Georgia’s Department of Public Health, up by 6 since noon.
There were 86 COVID-19-related deaths reported at noon in the 18-county area. That number did not increase in the 7 p.m. update.
Muscogee County reports 328 confirmed cases and 7 deaths as of 7 p.m.
Here’s a breakdown by county of total cases and deaths:
- Sumter 388, 28
- Muscogee 328, 7
Crisp 169, 3
- Randolph 163, 19
- Troup 154, 4
- Dooly 132, 9
- Macon 81, 3
- Harris 61, 2
- Meriwether 54, 0
- Marion 42, 1
- Talbot 26, 1
- Clay 25, 3
- Stewart 25, 0
Taylor 18, 2
- Schley 16, 1
Chattahoochee 13, 0
Webster 10, 2
- Quitman 8,1
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 May 3, 2020 at 1:00 PM.
