The Georgia Department of Public Health at noon Wednesday confirmed 9,879 cases of COVID-19 in the state, up 723 from the last update at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Statewide, 361 people have now died from the novel coronavirus, an increase of 13 confirmed deaths overnight.
The Georgia Public Health Laboratory and private labs have conducted a total of 38,787 COVID-19 tests. The state has tested 2,807 people. Private labs have tested 35,980 state officials said.
The state health department reports 1,980 people have been hospitalized due to the virus.
State health officials have not provided a breakdown of the residents tested for COVID-19 in each county. The state is also not tracking the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19.
For 859 cases, the state is reporting the counties as “unknown.” The person may be homeless or medical professionals may not have entered the person’s county of residence into the state’s electronic database, health officials have previously said.
The Georgia DPH released a statement encouraging people to continue to implement ways of slowing down the spread of COVID-19 after the rise in numbers over the last 24 hours.
Stay home
Practice social distancing
Wash your hands
Wear a mask
“We know that increased testing means the number of positive cases will increase. But along with that, we are also seeing further spread of COVID-19 throughout Georgia,” DPH commissioner Kathleen Toomey said in the release Tuesday. “We can stop the spread of COVID-19 in Georgia, but every Georgian must take personal responsibility now and follow the prevention guidance to keep this deadly virus from taking any more precious lives.”
BREAKDOWN BY COUNTY
County
Cases
Deaths
Fulton
1238
40
Dougherty
986
61
Dekalb
703
11
Cobb
586
29
Gwinnett
563
15
Clayton
292
11
Hall
227
0
Henry
214
3
Lee
208
15
Bartow
192
12
Carroll
183
4
Sumter
168
5
Cherokee
151
6
Chatham
123
4
Douglas
122
5
Mitchell
107
11
Forsyth
99
2
Early
96
5
Floyd
93
3
Terrell
93
9
Houston
91
7
Rockdale
86
2
Fayette
85
4
Randolph
82
3
Clarke
81
9
Coweta
79
2
Richmond
76
3
Colquitt
70
5
Newton
67
3
Paulding
66
1
Worth
64
3
Muscogee
56
1
Spalding
56
4
Bibb
50
1
Columbia
48
1
Crisp
48
0
Lowndes
48
1
Tift
47
1
Troup
47
3
Coffee
43
2
Barrow
42
3
Thomas
42
2
Ware
42
3
Pierce
35
1
Oconee
33
1
Calhoun
31
1
Glynn
30
0
Decatur
29
0
Upson
29
0
Baldwin
27
1
Dooly
27
1
Bryan
26
2
Gordon
26
3
Laurens
25
0
Walton
25
2
Jackson
23
0
Greene
22
1
Polk
22
0
Dawson
21
1
Whitfield
21
3
Butts
20
0
Turner
20
0
Peach
19
2
Effingham
18
1
Meriwether
18
0
Burke
17
0
Camden
17
0
Haralson
17
0
Washington
17
0
Brooks
16
1
Mcduffie
16
1
Harris
15
0
Lamar
14
0
Liberty
14
0
Stephens
14
0
Clay
13
1
Johnson
13
0
Seminole
13
0
Bacon
12
0
Bulloch
12
0
Miller
12
0
Monroe
12
1
Morgan
12
0
Macon
11
0
Murray
11
0
Baker
10
2
Pickens
10
2
Pike
10
0
Schley
10
1
White
10
0
Dodge
9
0
Fannin
9
0
Irwin
9
0
Lumpkin
9
0
Madison
9
1
Habersham
8
0
Pulaski
8
0
Talbot
8
1
Toombs
8
1
Catoosa
7
0
Jenkins
7
1
Jones
7
0
Appling
6
0
Ben Hill
6
0
Grady
6
0
Lincoln
6
0
Warren
6
0
Brantley
5
1
Emanuel
5
0
Jasper
5
0
Lanier
5
0
Marion
5
0
Putnam
5
0
Rabun
5
0
Taylor
5
2
Wilkes
5
0
Atkinson
4
0
Banks
4
0
Berrien
4
0
Candler
4
0
Chattooga
4
1
Cook
4
0
Gilmer
4
0
Jefferson
4
0
Quitman
4
0
Screven
4
0
Stewart
4
0
Telfair
4
0
Union
4
0
Wayne
4
0
Wilkinson
4
0
Charlton
3
0
Clinch
3
0
Crawford
3
0
Elbert
3
0
Franklin
3
0
Hart
3
0
Heard
3
1
Mcintosh
3
0
Tattnall
3
0
Walker
3
0
Webster
3
0
Chattahoochee
2
0
Dade
2
1
Oglethorpe
2
1
Towns
2
0
Twiggs
2
0
Wilcox
2
0
Bleckley
1
0
Echols
1
0
Hancock
1
0
Jeff Davis
1
0
Long
1
0
Treutlen
1
0
Wheeler
1
0
Unknown
859
6