Special Report
This is the County in the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area With the Most COVID-19
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As the delta variant continues to surge, COVID-19 continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 42,301,000 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Augusta-Richmond County metropolitan area, which covers parts of Georgia and South Carolina, a total of 94,345 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 15,875 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 12,929 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Augusta-Richmond County is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Augusta metro area comprises seven counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, Richmond County has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 33,208 infections in Richmond County, or 16,483 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does Richmond County have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Augusta area, it also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metro area as a whole. There have been a total of 301 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in Richmond County, compared to 228 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Augusta-Richmond County metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Sept. 24, 2021.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Richmond County, GA | 16,483 | 33,208 | 301 | 606 |
2 | Columbia County, GA | 16,100 | 23,715 | 167 | 246 |
3 | Burke County, GA | 15,933 | 3,593 | 310 | 70 |
4 | Edgefield County, SC | 15,522 | 4,155 | 187 | 50 |
5 | McDuffie County, GA | 15,443 | 3,320 | 298 | 64 |
6 | Aiken County, SC | 15,119 | 25,238 | 173 | 289 |
7 | Lincoln County, GA | 14,310 | 1,116 | 397 | 31 |
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