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

There have been 344 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, and seven additional deaths from it, reported in Georgia since Friday at noon., according to new numbers released by the Georgia Department of Public Health Friday night at 7.

Statewide, there have been 22,491 cases of COVID-19 and 899 deaths reported to state health officials. The deaths account for 4% of cases seen in the state so far.

There have also been 4,322 hospitalizations in Georgia, which accounts for 19.22% of all cases seen in the state.

In the past 24 hours, 658 new cases and 18 deaths have been reported.

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 7,106 tests, with 1,317  of them being positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, commercial labs had processed 100,070 tests, with 21,174 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 2,500 cases and 91 deaths. Among the five counties with the highest cases totals in Georgia, Fulton is followed by:

• DeKalb (1,721 cases, 36 deaths)

• Dougherty (1,465 cases, 108 deaths)

• Gwinnett (1,382 cases, 46 deaths)

• Cobb (1,368 cases, 72 deaths)

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