Thursday 7 p.m. update: Georgia Department of Public Health releases latest coronavirus cases and death figures

There have been 371 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, and nine additional deaths from it, reported in Georgia since noon Thursday, according to new numbers released by the Georgia Department of Public Health Thursday night at 7.

Statewide, there have been 21,883 cases of COVID-19 and 881 deaths reported to state health officials. The deaths account for 4.03% of cases seen in the state so far.

There have also been 4,154 hospitalizations in Georgia, which accounts for 18.98% of all cases seen in the state.

Overall, there were 781 news cases and 35 deaths reported on Wednesday.

Health officials have not released figures on the number of people who got COVID-19, but later recovered.

The state’s health lab has processed 6,537 tests, with 1,249 of them being positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, commercial labs had processed 94,525 tests, with 20,634 of them being positive for the disease.

The state has not released a county-by-county breakdown of where tests have been performed.

Peoples ages 18 to 59 make up 62% of cases seen in Georgia, followed people ages 60 and older (34%) and newborns to 17-year-olds (1%). The ages of patients in 3% of cases was unknown, however.

Meanwhile, women make up 54% of COVID-19 cases while men make up 44%. The gender of patients in 2% of cases in unknown.

Fulton County has more total cases than any county in the state with 2,436 cases and 88 deaths. Among the five counties with the highest cases totals in Georgia, Fulton is followed by:

• DeKalb (1,689 cases, 34 deaths)

• Dougherty (1,478 cases, 109 deaths)

• Gwinnett (1,351 cases, 46 deaths)

• Cobb (1,326 cases, 66 deaths)

The full county-by-county breakdown of cases and deaths in Georgia is as follows: