COVID-19 deaths continued to climb in Georgia and South Carolina Wednesday while the Aiken-Augusta area suffered a half-dozen new deaths for the second day in a row, with Aiken County reaching a grim milestone. Augusta hospitals were also treating a record number of infected patients for the second day in a row.
Georgia added 4,186 new cases to reach 488,338 with 52 new deaths for 9,302, the Department of Public Health reported. Richmond County saw 59 new cases for 11,144 and Columbia County had 30 more for 6,252. Other area counties saw five new cases or less: one in Burke for 1,074, three in Jefferson for 1,039, five in McDuffie for 885, one in Jenkins for 497, one in Screven for 489, one in Wilkes for 406, one in Lincoln for 302, one in Warren for 203 and two in Glascock for 73. Taliaferro County was unchanged at 42.
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