ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Public Health says there are a total of 66 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state of Georgia as of early Saturday afternoon, March 14, 2020.
The data includes 15 cases in Cobb County, 13 cases in Fulton County, 8 cases in DeKalb County, 7 cases in Bartow County, 5 cases in Cherokee County, 4 cases in Fayette County, 3 cases in Floyd County, 2 cases in Coweta County, 2 cases on Gordon County, 2 cases in Gordon County, 2 cases in Gwinnett County, 1 case in Lee County, 1 case in Henry County, 1 case in Lowndes County, 1 case in Polk County and 1 case in Charlton County.
Of the cases, 56 percent of them are in males, while 44 percent are from female patients.
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Broken down by age group, 53 percent of the patients are age 60 or older; 42 percent are between the ages of 18 and 59; 2 percent are between 0 and 17, and another 3 percent are unknown.
This came after Gov. Brian Kemp said Saturday morning that the number of confirmed cases had seen a dramatic increase overall, and that in three metro Atlanta counties, the number had doubled overnight.
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