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
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