Friday noon update: Georgia Department of Public Health releases latest coronavirus cases and death figures

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From Staff Reports

There have been 314 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, and 11 additional deaths from it, reported in Georgia since Thursdfay at 7 p.m., according to new numbers released by the Georgia Department of Public Health Friday at noon.

Statewide, there have been 22,147 cases of COVID-19 and 892 deaths reported to state health officials. The deaths account for 4.03% of cases seen in the state so far.

There have also been 4,221 hospitalizations in Georgia, which accounts for 19.06% of all cases seen in the state.

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 1,350  of them being positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, commercial labs had processed 100,070 tests, with 20,832 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 2,468 cases and 90 deaths. Among the five counties with the highest cases totals in Georgia, Fulton is followed by:

• DeKalb (1,709 cases, 35 deaths)

• Dougherty (1,487 cases, 108 deaths)

• Gwinnett (1,366 cases, 46 deaths)

• Cobb (1,343 cases, 69 deaths)

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

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