As of Thursday’s noon status update from the Georgia Department of Public Health, coronavirus cases in Dougherty County have surged past every county in Georgia except Fulton County, which is Georgia’s most populated county.
Dougherty County now has 156 confirmed cases of coronavirus. DeKalb County has 129 cases and Cobb County has 115. Fulton County still leads with 211 cases.
Coronavirus spread rapidly through Dougherty County after two highly attended funerals in the Albany area. Those cases have made Phoebe Putney hospital in Albany Georgia’s hardest hit hospital.
Georgia has a total of 1,525 cases and 48 deaths. About 31% of those who have confirmed cases have been hospitalized. Georgia’s total number of hospitalized coronavirus patients is 473.
So far, 8,926 tests have been processed statewide.
Below is the breakdown of cases by county:
County Cases Fulton 211 Dougherty 156 Dekalb 129 Cobb 115 Bartow 86 Gwinnett 75 Carroll 50 Cherokee 38 Clayton 32 Lee 30 Henry 25 Clarke 24 Hall 21 Douglas 18 Floyd 16 Forsyth 15 Fayette 14 Coweta 12 Lowndes 12 Rockdale 12 Spalding 11 Columbia 10 Mitchell 10 Newton 10 Polk 10 Richmond 10 Troup 10 Chatham 9 Gordon 9 Houston 9 Bibb 8 Early 7 Laurens 7 Oconee 7 Paulding 7 Glynn 5 Muscogee 5 Peach 5 Sumter 5 Terrell 5 Tift 5 Whitfield 5 Worth 5 Barrow 4 Colquitt 4 Crisp 4 Lumpkin 4 Pickens 4 Bryan 3 Butts 3 Dawson 3 Effingham 3 Lamar 3 Monroe 3 Baldwin 2 Camden 2 Coffee 2 Decatur 2 Irwin 2 Jasper 2 Madison 2 Miller 2 Seminole 2 Tattnall 2 Turner 2 Twiggs 2 Washington 2 Baker 1 Ben Hill 1 Burke 1 Catoosa 1 Charlton 1 Chattooga 1 Clinch 1 Dodge 1 Fannin 1 Greene 1 Harris 1 Heard 1 Jackson 1 Jones 1 Liberty 1 Lincoln 1 Long 1 Macon 1 Meriwether 1 Morgan 1 Pierce 1 Pulaski 1 Randolph 1 Stephens 1 Taylor 1 Thomas 1 Toombs 1 Ware 1 White 1 Wilkes 1 Unknown 166
Thom Chandler
Thom Chandler is the editor of The Georgia Sun and has been writing, editing and managing websites and blogs since 1995. He is a lifelong Georgian and one of those increasingly rare Atlanta natives.
