State Mistakenly Reports DeKalb Child’s Death: GA Coronavirus

CORRECTION

Georgia Department of Public Health officials mistakenly said Friday that an 11-year-old boy from DeKalb County was Georgia's youngest coronavirus death. The report was later retracted.

DEKALB COUNTY, GA— As of Friday, there have been 176 deaths in the state and more than 5,400 cases in the state. The youngest person to die from the virus was a 29-year-old woman from Peach County.

A shelter-in-place for Georgia goes into effect at 6 p.m. today. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the order on Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic. Georgians must stay at home, unless they are either participating in or conducting essential services, performing necessary travel or are part of the workforce for critical infrastructure.

The statewide shelter-in-place order will be in place from Friday through April 13. This date is in line with the state's public health emergency order.

The decision is one many states are taking as a way to help slow the spread of the virus. As of Friday, more than one million people have been infected globally.

As of Friday morning Fulton County's 747 cases are the most of any Georgia locality. The next highest totals are 521 in Dougherty County, DeKalb with 409 cases, Cobb with 341 cases, Gwinnett with 303 cases, Bartow with 153 cases, Carroll with 139 cases and Clayton with 165 cases.

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Of those counties, Dougherty has the most deaths in the state with 30. Fulton has had 23 deaths, Cobb had 17, Lee and Clarke both have had seven. Gwinnett and DeKalb, eight, Bartow, Cherokee and Fayette, each had four. Houston, five and Clayton had six, and Henry, Coweta, Terrell, Rockdale, Chatham, three, and Floyd and Barrow each had two deaths. Douglas and Sumter had three.

Of Georgia's coronavirus cases, 58 percent are between ages 18 and 59, while those above the age of 60 make up 36 percent. People up to age 17 represent 1 percent of cases, and the remaining percentage of cases have unknown ages.

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