Starting with Friday night’s COVID-19 status update, the Georgia Department of Public Health has started releasing the number of coronavirus deaths in each of Georgia’s counties.
Dougherty County has the most coronavirus deaths in the state at 13. In Fulton County, 12 people have died from the virus. Cobb County and Lee County each have had 5 deaths.
For the first time, Georgia’s overall death rate has fallen below 3% and is now 2.96%. In total, 65 people in Georgia have died from coronavirus.
There have been 2,198 confirmed cases, 607 of which led to hospitalization.
Below is the breakdown of cases and deaths per county:
| COVID-19 Confirmed Cases By County: | Cases | Deaths |
| Fulton | 347 | 12 |
| Dekalb | 219 | 2 |
| Dougherty | 203 | 13 |
| Cobb | 163 | 5 |
| Gwinnett | 121 | 1 |
| Bartow | 107 | 1 |
| Carroll | 61 | 0 |
| Clayton | 53 | 1 |
| Cherokee | 50 | 1 |
| Henry | 44 | 1 |
| Lee | 37 | 5 |
| Clarke | 34 | 2 |
| Douglas | 32 | 1 |
| Hall | 30 | 0 |
| Floyd | 26 | 1 |
| Fayette | 22 | 2 |
| Forsyth | 21 | 1 |
| Lowndes | 20 | 1 |
| Coweta | 19 | 2 |
| Rockdale | 16 | 1 |
| Chatham | 15 | 0 |
| Newton | 15 | 0 |
| Mitchell | 14 | 0 |
| Early | 13 | 1 |
| Paulding | 13 | 0 |
| Tift | 13 | 0 |
| Gordon | 12 | 1 |
| Bibb | 11 | 0 |
| Richmond | 11 | 0 |
| Spalding | 11 | 0 |
| Columbia | 10 | 0 |
| Houston | 10 | 1 |
| Oconee | 10 | 0 |
| Polk | 10 | 0 |
| Sumter | 10 | 0 |
| Troup | 9 | 1 |
| Barrow | 7 | 1 |
| Glynn | 7 | 0 |
| Laurens | 7 | 0 |
| Muscogee | 7 | 0 |
| Worth | 7 | 1 |
| Peach | 6 | 0 |
| Terrell | 6 | 2 |
| Whitfield | 6 | 0 |
| Bryan | 5 | 0 |
| Colquitt | 5 | 0 |
| Crisp | 4 | 0 |
| Effingham | 4 | 0 |
| Lumpkin | 4 | 0 |
| Pickens | 4 | 1 |
| Upson | 4 | 0 |
| Burke | 3 | 0 |
| Butts | 3 | 0 |
| Coffee | 3 | 0 |
| Decatur | 3 | 0 |
| Fannin | 3 | 0 |
| Irwin | 3 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 3 | 0 |
| Madison | 3 | 0 |
| Meriwether | 3 | 0 |
| Miller | 3 | 0 |
| Monroe | 3 | 0 |
| Randolph | 3 | 0 |
| Thomas | 3 | 0 |
| Baldwin | 2 | 0 |
| Ben Hill | 2 | 0 |
| Calhoun | 2 | 0 |
| Camden | 2 | 0 |
| Dawson | 2 | 0 |
| Jackson | 2 | 0 |
| Jasper | 2 | 0 |
| Jones | 2 | 0 |
| Lamar | 2 | 0 |
| Pulaski | 2 | 0 |
| Seminole | 2 | 0 |
| Stephens | 2 | 0 |
| Tattnall | 2 | 0 |
| Turner | 2 | 0 |
| Twiggs | 2 | 0 |
| Ware | 2 | 0 |
| Washington | 2 | 0 |
| Baker | 1 | 1 |
| Catoosa | 1 | 0 |
| Charlton | 1 | 0 |
| Chattahoochee | 1 | 0 |
| Chattooga | 1 | 0 |
| Clinch | 1 | 0 |
| Dodge | 1 | 0 |
| Franklin | 1 | 0 |
| Greene | 1 | 0 |
| Haralson | 1 | 0 |
| Harris | 1 | 0 |
| Hart | 1 | 0 |
| Heard | 1 | 1 |
| Liberty | 1 | 0 |
| Long | 1 | 0 |
| Macon | 1 | 0 |
| Mcduffie | 1 | 0 |
| Morgan | 1 | 0 |
| Pierce | 1 | 0 |
| Taylor | 1 | 0 |
| Toombs | 1 | 0 |
| White | 1 | 0 |
| Wilkes | 1 | 0 |
| Unknown | 207 | 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.
