More than 5,000 people in Georgia have been confirmed to have coronavirus as of noon April 2. The exact number of cases reported is 5,348, up from 4,638 at noon yesterday.
As of the Georgia Department of Public Health’s noon status update, the state also passed another milestone — the number of people hospitalized from coronavirus in Georgia is 1,056. According to the latest round of reporting, 19.75% of confirmed cases end up hospitalized. Georgia’s death toll is now 163, bringing the death rate from the virus to 3.05%.
Dougherty County has had the most people die from the virus. Dougherty’s death toll is 29 out of 507 total cases. Fulton County leads the state in cases at 712, but not in deaths, which are at 22.
Below is the breakdown of cases and deaths per county.
| COVID-19 Confirmed Cases By County: | No. Cases | No. Deaths |
| Fulton | 712 | 22 |
| Dougherty | 507 | 29 |
| Dekalb | 396 | 6 |
| Cobb | 329 | 17 |
| Gwinnett | 282 | 6 |
| Clayton | 148 | 5 |
| Bartow | 147 | 4 |
| Carroll | 133 | 2 |
| Henry | 108 | 2 |
| Lee | 100 | 7 |
| Cherokee | 92 | 4 |
| Hall | 72 | 0 |
| Floyd | 71 | 2 |
| Douglas | 60 | 3 |
| Clarke | 54 | 7 |
| Rockdale | 54 | 2 |
| Fayette | 52 | 4 |
| Forsyth | 51 | 1 |
| Houston | 47 | 5 |
| Terrell | 46 | 2 |
| Sumter | 45 | 3 |
| Chatham | 44 | 2 |
| Coweta | 44 | 2 |
| Early | 41 | 1 |
| Richmond | 41 | 1 |
| Mitchell | 39 | 1 |
| Newton | 36 | 0 |
| Paulding | 33 | 0 |
| Tift | 28 | 0 |
| Worth | 28 | 1 |
| Columbia | 27 | 0 |
| Lowndes | 25 | 1 |
| Muscogee | 25 | 0 |
| Bibb | 24 | 1 |
| Colquitt | 23 | 1 |
| Crisp | 21 | 0 |
| Barrow | 20 | 2 |
| Glynn | 20 | 0 |
| Gordon | 20 | 1 |
| Troup | 20 | 1 |
| Oconee | 18 | 0 |
| Spalding | 18 | 1 |
| Polk | 16 | 0 |
| Thomas | 15 | 0 |
| Whitfield | 15 | 1 |
| Laurens | 14 | 0 |
| Walton | 14 | 0 |
| Ware | 14 | 2 |
| Dawson | 11 | 0 |
| Dooly | 11 | 0 |
| Jackson | 11 | 0 |
| Bryan | 10 | 1 |
| Calhoun | 10 | 1 |
| Pierce | 10 | 0 |
| Butts | 9 | 0 |
| Coffee | 9 | 0 |
| Decatur | 9 | 0 |
| Meriwether | 9 | 0 |
| Burke | 8 | 0 |
| Greene | 8 | 0 |
| Pickens | 8 | 1 |
| Baldwin | 7 | 1 |
| Lamar | 7 | 0 |
| Liberty | 7 | 0 |
| Lumpkin | 7 | 0 |
| Peach | 7 | 1 |
| Bacon | 6 | 0 |
| Camden | 6 | 0 |
| Effingham | 6 | 0 |
| Fannin | 6 | 0 |
| Haralson | 6 | 0 |
| Monroe | 6 | 0 |
| Murray | 6 | 0 |
| Seminole | 6 | 0 |
| Upson | 6 | 0 |
| Clay | 5 | 0 |
| Franklin | 5 | 0 |
| Harris | 5 | 0 |
| Irwin | 5 | 0 |
| Jones | 5 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 5 | 0 |
| Stephens | 5 | 0 |
| Turner | 5 | 0 |
| Baker | 4 | 1 |
| Catoosa | 4 | 0 |
| Madison | 4 | 1 |
| Mcduffie | 4 | 1 |
| Miller | 4 | 0 |
| Pulaski | 4 | 0 |
| Randolph | 4 | 0 |
| Toombs | 4 | 0 |
| Warren | 4 | 0 |
| Washington | 4 | 0 |
| Appling | 3 | 0 |
| Banks | 3 | 0 |
| Ben Hill | 3 | 0 |
| Berrien | 3 | 0 |
| Brooks | 3 | 0 |
| Bulloch | 3 | 0 |
| Chattooga | 3 | 0 |
| Dodge | 3 | 0 |
| Hart | 3 | 0 |
| Schley | 3 | 0 |
| White | 3 | 0 |
| Chattahoochee | 2 | 0 |
| Clinch | 2 | 0 |
| Grady | 2 | 0 |
| Habersham | 2 | 0 |
| Heard | 2 | 1 |
| Jasper | 2 | 0 |
| Jefferson | 2 | 0 |
| Macon | 2 | 0 |
| Morgan | 2 | 0 |
| Pike | 2 | 0 |
| Putnam | 2 | 0 |
| Rabun | 2 | 0 |
| Screven | 2 | 0 |
| Tattnall | 2 | 0 |
| Taylor | 2 | 0 |
| Twiggs | 2 | 0 |
| Walker | 2 | 0 |
| Wilkes | 2 | 0 |
| Bleckley | 1 | 0 |
| Candler | 1 | 0 |
| Charlton | 1 | 0 |
| Cook | 1 | 0 |
| Dade | 1 | 0 |
| Emanuel | 1 | 0 |
| Gilmer | 1 | 0 |
| Jenkins | 1 | 0 |
| Johnson | 1 | 0 |
| Lanier | 1 | 0 |
| Long | 1 | 0 |
| Mcintosh | 1 | 0 |
| Oglethorpe | 1 | 1 |
| Stewart | 1 | 0 |
| Talbot | 1 | 0 |
| Union | 1 | 0 |
| Webster | 1 | 0 |
| Wheeler | 1 | 0 |
| Wilcox | 1 | 0 |
| Wilkinson | 1 | 0 |
| Unknown | 778 | 1 |
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.
