If you’ve been following the coronavirus pandemic in Georgia, you may have read about an 11-year-old in DeKalb County dying from coronavirus. According to state health officials, that story was not accurate and was instead the result of an error in the state’s nightly status update.
The Georgia Department of Public Health listed an 11-year-old child in DeKalb County as one of the deaths from coronavirus in its Thursday night status update. However, department officials are saying that was an error.
So far, no children in Georgia have died from COVID-19.
According to Georgia Department of Public Health spokeswoman Nancy Nydam, the 11-year-old listed on Thursday night’s status update was the result of a clerical error.
“It appears it was a clerical error on the part of the reporting facility. We do not have any records indicating a death of an 11-year-old from COVID-19,” Nydam said.
As of noon Friday, the youngest person to die from coronavirus in Georgia is a 29-year-old woman from Peach County. It is unknown if she had underlying conditions.
According to the Department of Public Health, Georgia now has 5,831 cases of coronavirus, 1,158 people have been hospitalized and 184 people have died.
Below is the list of cases and deaths by county.
COVID-19 Confirmed Cases By County:
No. Cases
No. Deaths
Fulton
882
23
Dougherty
560
30
Dekalb
448
8
Cobb
381
18
Gwinnett
329
8
Clayton
195
6
Bartow
154
3
Carroll
143
2
Henry
125
3
Lee
115
8
Cherokee
104
5
Hall
79
0
Floyd
77
2
Douglas
71
4
Rockdale
63
2
Forsyth
60
1
Sumter
59
3
Chatham
58
3
Fayette
58
4
Clarke
57
8
Coweta
53
2
Houston
53
5
Richmond
50
1
Terrell
50
2
Early
48
1
Mitchell
43
1
Paulding
42
0
Newton
40
1
Colquitt
34
2
Bibb
32
1
Columbia
32
0
Muscogee
30
0
Tift
30
0
Worth
30
1
Lowndes
28
1
Troup
26
1
Crisp
23
0
Glynn
23
0
Spalding
23
1
Barrow
21
2
Gordon
21
2
Oconee
19
0
Thomas
17
0
Polk
16
0
Walton
16
0
Ware
16
2
Coffee
15
0
Laurens
15
0
Whitfield
15
1
Pierce
14
0
Dawson
13
0
Bryan
12
1
Decatur
12
0
Dooly
12
0
Jackson
12
0
Turner
12
0
Baldwin
10
1
Calhoun
10
1
Meriwether
10
0
Butts
9
0
Greene
9
0
Peach
9
1
Pickens
9
1
Burke
8
0
Fannin
8
0
Randolph
8
0
Clay
7
0
Haralson
7
0
Harris
7
0
Liberty
7
0
Lumpkin
7
0
Murray
7
0
Bacon
6
0
Camden
6
0
Catoosa
6
0
Effingham
6
0
Irwin
6
0
Jones
6
0
Lamar
6
0
Monroe
6
0
Pulaski
6
0
Seminole
6
0
Upson
6
0
Washington
6
0
Brooks
5
0
Bulloch
5
0
Dodge
5
0
Franklin
5
0
Lincoln
5
0
Madison
5
1
Mcduffie
5
1
Miller
5
0
Stephens
5
0
Toombs
5
1
Baker
4
1
Schley
4
0
Warren
4
0
Appling
3
0
Banks
3
0
Ben Hill
3
0
Berrien
3
0
Chattooga
3
0
Grady
3
0
Hart
3
0
Pike
3
0
Tattnall
3
0
Walker
3
0
White
3
0
Wilkes
3
0
Chattahoochee
2
0
Clinch
2
0
Habersham
2
0
Heard
2
1
Jasper
2
0
Jefferson
2
0
Jenkins
2
0
Macon
2
0
Mcintosh
2
0
Morgan
2
0
Putnam
2
0
Rabun
2
0
Screven
2
0
Talbot
2
0
Taylor
2
0
Telfair
2
0
Twiggs
2
0
Wilcox
2
0
Bleckley
1
0
Candler
1
0
Charlton
1
0
Cook
1
0
Dade
1
1
Elbert
1
0
Emanuel
1
0
Gilmer
1
0
Johnson
1
0
Lanier
1
0
Long
1
0
Marion
1
0
Oglethorpe
1
1
Quitman
1
0
Stewart
1
0
Towns
1
0
Union
1
0
Webster
1
0
Wheeler
1
0
Wilkinson
1
0
Unknown
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