GA Coronavirus: More Than 900 New Cases And 400 Total Deaths

GEORGIA — More than 900 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus have been reported in Georgia in the past 24 hours. According to numbers released Friday at noon by the Georgia Department of Public Health, the state now has 11,483 cases.

The state also saw 37 more deaths since Thursday at noon, bringing the total death toll to 416. The health department reports that deaths make up 3.62 percent of all cases.

There have also been 192 more hospitalizations and as of Friday's noon report, 2,351 people with COVID-19 are hospitalized across the state. That is 20.47 percent of all cases.

The jump in numbers comes just days after Gov. Brian Kemp extended the statewide shelter-in-place order through the end of the month. The public health state of emergency was also extended through mid-May.

"We are extending the Public Health State of Emergency through May 13," Kemp said in a tweet. "This will allow us to continue deploying resources, lend support to frontline healthcare workers, and help as we prepare for a potential patient surge in our hospitals."

As of Friday at noon, Fulton County still has the most cases of any Georgia county with 1,364 cases. Following Fulton, Dougherty County has 1,062 cases, DeKalb with 795 cases, Cobb with 662 cases, Gwinnett with 646 cases, Clayton with 310, Hall with 250, Henry with 242, Lee with 222, Bartow with 207, Sumter with 211, Carroll with 197, Cherokee with 170, Douglas with 142, Chatham with 136, Mitchell with 131, Muscogee with 127, Forsyth with 113, Houston with 111 and Early with 105.

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Dougherty County has had the highest death toll with 67 deaths. This is followed by Fulton seeing 48 deaths, Cobb with 33, Gwinnett with 17, Lee and Bartowl each had 15, Mitchell and DeKalb each had 13, and Clayton had 11.

The oldest person to die from the coronavirus in Georgia was a 100-year-old woman from Greene County. It is unknown if she had underlying medical conditions. The youngest people to die was a 27-year-old woman from Lee County County without underlying medical issues.

Of all Georgia cases, 61 percent are within the ages of 18 to 59 and 35 percent of cases are people 60 or older.

Commercial laboratories have done the majority of COVID-19 testing with a total of 43,156 tests conducted and 10,944 of those being positive. The Georgia Department of Health has conducted 2,991 and 539 have been positive.

According to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, there are have been 473,093 confirmed cases in the United States and 26,570 of those have already recovered. Worldwide there are more than 1.6 million cases and 365,7221 of those have recovered.

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