GA Coronavirus Cases Approach 61,000; 30 More Deaths Reported

ATLANTA, GA — There are now nearly 61,000 cases of coronavirus in Georgia, according to statistics released Thursday by the state’s health department.

The Georgia Department of Public Health reported 60,912 total cases of the coronavirus in the state and 30 more deaths since Wednesday, raising the total to 2,605 coronavirus-related deaths in Georgia.

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 9,600 Georgians have been hospitalized, with 2,109 patients in the intensive care unit.

No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

Georgia has tested 778,570 people so far, including both viral and antibody testing. So far, 62,109— or about 8 percent — have tested positive.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta continue to have the highest number of cases:

• Gwinnett County: 5,753 confirmed cases
• Fulton County: 5,325 confirmed cases
• DeKalb County: 4,541 confirmed cases
• Cobb County: 3,751 confirmed cases
• Hall County: 2,874 confirmed cases

Thursday's statistics also identify 1,147 cases of COVID-19 as from "unknown" counties, with 2,872 cases counted as "Non-Georgia Resident."

Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the highest number of deaths, with the exception of Dougherty County, the site of the state's first major outbreak and where Albany is the county seat.

• Fulton County; 301 deaths
• Cobb County: 224 deaths
• Gwinnett County: 159 deaths
• DeKalb County: 158 deaths
• Dougherty County: 151 deaths

Globally, more than 8.4 million cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, with more than 450,000 deaths, according to numbers tallied Thursday afternoon by Johns Hopkins. In the U.S., nearly 2.2 million people have been confirmed to have COVID-19, with 118,057 deaths confirmed as of Thursday.

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