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
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