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
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