Washington County’s number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased, once again, in the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Tuesday, April 7 COVID-19 status report, going from 11 cases at noon to 13 cases at 7 p.m.
As previously reported by WACO 100, Washington County’s first confirmed case was listed in the Department of Public Health’s noon report on Monday, March 23. The DPH reported the second confirmed case in Washington County at noon on Wednesday, March 25. The third and fourth cases were reported in the Tuesday, March 31 7 p.m. report. The fifth confirmed case was reported in the Thursday, April 2 7 p.m. daily status report. The sixth case was reported on Sunday, April 5 in the noon report. The noon report on Tuesday, April 7 saw a spike in cases for Washington County, going from six to 11.
The most recent report at 7 p.m. on Tuesday showed an overall increase in cases throughout the state, going from 8,818 at noon on Tuesday to 9,156 confirmed cases in the state in the Department of Public Health’s evening report on Tuesday.
The Department of Public Health began listing the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the state in their Tuesday, March 24 report. As of 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, Georgia had 1,899 hospitalized.
The Department of Public Health notes that the significant increase in cases is in part due to additional laboratories reporting to DPH, and also improvements in electronic reporting from other laboratories. Patient information is often incomplete and DPH works to complete the records, so data will change over time.
The confirmed number of COVID-19 deaths in the state rose from 329 to 348.
The Department of Public Health began providing additional information concerning the COVID-19 cases throughout the state in their Friday, March 27 evening report; the additional data identifies the number of confirmed cases by County, as well as the number of deaths (if any) by County.
The Department of Public Health notes that this data represents confirmed cases reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health. A confirmed case is defined as a person who has tested positive for 2019 novel coronavirus.
The following is the breakdown of where those confirmed cases are located throughout the state and the number of deaths by County:
| COVID-19 Confirmed Cases By County: | No. Cases | No. Deaths |
| Fulton | 1185 | 39 |
| Dougherty | 973 | 56 |
| Dekalb | 673 | 11 |
| Cobb | 566 | 29 |
| Gwinnett | 540 | 13 |
| Clayton | 278 | 10 |
| Hall | 215 | 0 |
| Henry | 208 | 3 |
| Lee | 204 | 15 |
| Bartow | 191 | 12 |
| Carroll | 183 | 4 |
| Sumter | 162 | 6 |
| Cherokee | 147 | 6 |
| Chatham | 120 | 4 |
| Douglas | 117 | 5 |
| Mitchell | 100 | 11 |
| Forsyth | 99 | 1 |
| Early | 96 | 5 |
| Floyd | 92 | 3 |
| Terrell | 92 | 9 |
| Rockdale | 86 | 2 |
| Houston | 85 | 6 |
| Randolph | 83 | 4 |
| Fayette | 81 | 4 |
| Coweta | 80 | 2 |
| Clarke | 78 | 9 |
| Richmond | 75 | 3 |
| Colquitt | 70 | 5 |
| Newton | 67 | 3 |
| Paulding | 62 | 1 |
| Worth | 60 | 3 |
| Muscogee | 54 | 1 |
| Spalding | 54 | 4 |
| Troup | 47 | 3 |
| Bibb | 46 | 1 |
| Columbia | 46 | 0 |
| Crisp | 46 | 0 |
| Lowndes | 45 | 1 |
| Tift | 45 | 1 |
| Barrow | 42 | 3 |
| Thomas | 42 | 2 |
| Coffee | 41 | 2 |
| Ware | 37 | 3 |
| Oconee | 33 | 1 |
| Pierce | 32 | 1 |
| Calhoun | 31 | 1 |
| Glynn | 30 | 0 |
| Upson | 29 | 0 |
| Baldwin | 27 | 1 |
| Dooly | 27 | 1 |
| Bryan | 26 | 2 |
| Gordon | 25 | 3 |
| Walton | 25 | 2 |
| Laurens | 24 | 0 |
| Greene | 23 | 1 |
| Jackson | 23 | 0 |
| Decatur | 21 | 0 |
| Whitfield | 21 | 2 |
| Dawson | 20 | 1 |
| Meriwether | 20 | 0 |
| Peach | 20 | 2 |
| Polk | 20 | 0 |
| Turner | 19 | 0 |
| Butts | 18 | 0 |
| Effingham | 18 | 1 |
| Camden | 17 | 0 |
| Haralson | 17 | 0 |
| Mcduffie | 16 | 2 |
| Burke | 15 | 0 |
| Lamar | 15 | 0 |
| Liberty | 13 | 0 |
| Monroe | 13 | 1 |
| Seminole | 13 | 0 |
| Stephens | 13 | 0 |
| Washington | 13 | 0 |
| Clay | 12 | 1 |
| Harris | 12 | 0 |
| Bacon | 11 | 0 |
| Miller | 11 | 0 |
| Murray | 11 | 0 |
| Baker | 10 | 2 |
| Bulloch | 10 | 0 |
| Fannin | 10 | 0 |
| Macon | 10 | 0 |
| Morgan | 10 | 0 |
| Pickens | 10 | 2 |
| Pike | 10 | 0 |
| Schley | 10 | 1 |
| White | 10 | 0 |
| Irwin | 9 | 0 |
| Lumpkin | 9 | 0 |
| Madison | 9 | 1 |
| Dodge | 8 | 0 |
| Pulaski | 8 | 0 |
| Talbot | 8 | 1 |
| Toombs | 8 | 1 |
| Catoosa | 7 | 0 |
| Habersham | 7 | 0 |
| Jenkins | 7 | 0 |
| Jones | 7 | 0 |
| Appling | 6 | 0 |
| Ben Hill | 6 | 0 |
| Brooks | 6 | 0 |
| Grady | 6 | 0 |
| Jasper | 6 | 0 |
| Johnson | 6 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 6 | 0 |
| Warren | 6 | 0 |
| Brantley | 5 | 1 |
| Lanier | 5 | 0 |
| Putnam | 5 | 0 |
| Rabun | 5 | 0 |
| Wilkes | 5 | 0 |
| Atkinson | 4 | 0 |
| Banks | 4 | 0 |
| Berrien | 4 | 0 |
| Candler | 4 | 0 |
| Chattooga | 4 | 1 |
| Cook | 4 | 0 |
| Jefferson | 4 | 0 |
| Marion | 4 | 0 |
| Quitman | 4 | 0 |
| Screven | 4 | 0 |
| Stewart | 4 | 0 |
| Taylor | 4 | 1 |
| Telfair | 4 | 0 |
| Union | 4 | 0 |
| Walker | 4 | 0 |
| Webster | 4 | 0 |
| Charlton | 3 | 0 |
| Clinch | 3 | 0 |
| Emanuel | 3 | 0 |
| Franklin | 3 | 0 |
| Gilmer | 3 | 0 |
| Hart | 3 | 0 |
| Heard | 3 | 1 |
| Mcintosh | 3 | 0 |
| Tattnall | 3 | 0 |
| Wayne | 3 | 0 |
| Wilkinson | 3 | 0 |
| Chattahoochee | 2 | 0 |
| Elbert | 2 | 0 |
| Oglethorpe | 2 | 1 |
| Towns | 2 | 0 |
| Twiggs | 2 | 0 |
| Wilcox | 2 | 0 |
| Bleckley | 1 | 0 |
| Crawford | 1 | 0 |
| Dade | 1 | 1 |
| Echols | 1 | 0 |
| Hancock | 1 | 0 |
| Jeff Davis | 1 | 0 |
| Long | 1 | 0 |
| Treutlen | 1 | 0 |
| Wheeler | 1 | 0 |
| Unknown | 441 | 6 |
The North Central Health District is a 13-county district in Central Georgia. It includes: Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Hancock, Houston, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Peach, Putnam, Twiggs, Washington and Wilkinson.
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