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

There have been 285 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, and 19 additional deaths from it, reported in Georgia since noon, according to new numbers released by the Georgia Department of Public Health Tuesday night.

Statewide, there have been 20,166 cases of COVID-19 and 818 deaths reported to state health officials. The deaths account for 4.06% of cases seen in the state so far.

There have also been 3,885 hospitalizations in Georgia, which accounts for 19.27% 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 5,733 tests, with 1,025 of them being positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, commercial labs had processed 82,407 tests, with 19,141 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 leads all counties in the state in total cases, with 2,206 cases and 83 deaths. Among the five counties with the highest cases totals in Georgia, Fulton is followed by DeKalb (1,563 cases, 30 deaths), Dougherty (1,456 cases, 103 deaths), Gwinnett (1,238 cases, 44 deaths) and Cobb (1,230 cases, 60 deaths).

The county of residence is unknown in 483 cases. State officials are also reporting that there have been 977 cases, including eight deaths, in Georgia where the patient was not a resident of the state.

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

Photo: Georgia Department of Public Health