The Georgia Department of Public Health at noon Wednesday confirmed 9,879 cases of COVID-19 in the state, up 723 from the last update at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Statewide, 361 people have now died from the novel coronavirus, an increase of 13 confirmed deaths overnight.

The Georgia Public Health Laboratory and private labs have conducted a total of 38,787 COVID-19 tests. The state has tested 2,807 people. Private labs have tested 35,980 state officials said.

The state health department reports 1,980 people have been hospitalized due to the virus.

State health officials have not provided a breakdown of the residents tested for COVID-19 in each county. The state is also not tracking the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19.

For 859 cases, the state is reporting the counties as “unknown.” The person may be homeless or medical professionals may not have entered the person’s county of residence into the state’s electronic database, health officials have previously said.

The Georgia DPH released a statement encouraging people to continue to implement ways of slowing down the spread of COVID-19 after the rise in numbers over the last 24 hours.

Stay home

Practice social distancing

Wash your hands

Wear a mask

“We know that increased testing means the number of positive cases will increase. But along with that, we are also seeing further spread of COVID-19 throughout Georgia,” DPH commissioner Kathleen Toomey said in the release Tuesday. “We can stop the spread of COVID-19 in Georgia, but every Georgian must take personal responsibility now and follow the prevention guidance to keep this deadly virus from taking any more precious lives.”

BREAKDOWN BY COUNTY

County

Cases

Deaths

Fulton

1238

40

Dougherty

986

61

Dekalb

703

11

Cobb

586

29

Gwinnett

563

15

Clayton

292

11

Hall

227

0

Henry

214

3

Lee

208

15

Bartow

192

12

Carroll

183

4

Sumter

168

5

Cherokee

151

6

Chatham

123

4

Douglas

122

5

Mitchell

107

11

Forsyth

99

2

Early

96

5

Floyd

93

3

Terrell

93

9

Houston

91

7

Rockdale

86

2

Fayette

85

4

Randolph

82

3

Clarke

81

9

Coweta

79

2

Richmond

76

3

Colquitt

70

5

Newton

67

3

Paulding

66

1

Worth

64

3

Muscogee

56

1

Spalding

56

4

Bibb

50

1

Columbia

48

1

Crisp

48

0

Lowndes

48

1

Tift

47

1

Troup

47

3

Coffee

43

2

Barrow

42

3

Thomas

42

2

Ware

42

3

Pierce

35

1

Oconee

33

1

Calhoun

31

1

Glynn

30

0

Decatur

29

0

Upson

29

0

Baldwin

27

1

Dooly

27

1

Bryan

26

2

Gordon

26

3

Laurens

25

0

Walton

25

2

Jackson

23

0

Greene

22

1

Polk

22

0

Dawson

21

1

Whitfield

21

3

Butts

20

0

Turner

20

0

Peach

19

2

Effingham

18

1

Meriwether

18

0

Burke

17

0

Camden

17

0

Haralson

17

0

Washington

17

0

Brooks

16

1

Mcduffie

16

1

Harris

15

0

Lamar

14

0

Liberty

14

0

Stephens

14

0

Clay

13

1

Johnson

13

0

Seminole

13

0

Bacon

12

0

Bulloch

12

0

Miller

12

0

Monroe

12

1

Morgan

12

0

Macon

11

0

Murray

11

0

Baker

10

2

Pickens

10

2

Pike

10

0

Schley

10

1

White

10

0

Dodge

9

0

Fannin

9

0

Irwin

9

0

Lumpkin

9

0

Madison

9

1

Habersham

8

0

Pulaski

8

0

Talbot

8

1

Toombs

8

1

Catoosa

7

0

Jenkins

7

1

Jones

7

0

Appling

6

0

Ben Hill

6

0

Grady

6

0

Lincoln

6

0

Warren

6

0

Brantley

5

1

Emanuel

5

0

Jasper

5

0

Lanier

5

0

Marion

5

0

Putnam

5

0

Rabun

5

0

Taylor

5

2

Wilkes

5

0

Atkinson

4

0

Banks

4

0

Berrien

4

0

Candler

4

0

Chattooga

4

1

Cook

4

0

Gilmer

4

0

Jefferson

4

0

Quitman

4

0

Screven

4

0

Stewart

4

0

Telfair

4

0

Union

4

0

Wayne

4

0

Wilkinson

4

0

Charlton

3

0

Clinch

3

0

Crawford

3

0

Elbert

3

0

Franklin

3

0

Hart

3

0

Heard

3

1

Mcintosh

3

0

Tattnall

3

0

Walker

3

0

Webster

3

0

Chattahoochee

2

0

Dade

2

1

Oglethorpe

2

1

Towns

2

0

Twiggs

2

0

Wilcox

2

0

Bleckley

1

0

Echols

1

0

Hancock

1

0

Jeff Davis

1

0

Long

1

0

Treutlen

1

0

Wheeler

1

0

Unknown

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