Georgia’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 15,000 Notably, none of those deaths were in SE Georgia counties tracked by News4Jax Staff, News4Jax Tags: (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) The Georgia Department of Public Health on Friday reported 2,265 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those cases, none were reported in the Southeast Georgia counties tracked by News4Jax. As of Friday, a total of 814,820 confirmed cases had been reported by the state Department of Public Health. The agency on Friday reported 20 additional confirmed deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 15,007 confirmed deaths since the start of the pandemic.