7-Day Rolling Averages Of COVID-19 Cases Up in Region And State

The Northeast Health District of the Georgia Department of Health added 26 new cases with the noon Daily Status Report on Saturday as each of the 10 counties in the district added at least one case except for Clarke and Morgan counties.

Oconee County added a single case, while bordering Walton County added nine cases and Oglethrope County added seven cases.

The 26 added cases were down from the 34 cases added with the noon Daily Status Report on Friday but up from the seven cases added at noon on Saturday a week ago.

The seven-day rolling average increased from 20.0 cases per day to 22.7, providing little evidence that the growth in COVID-19 cases in the 10-county region has plateaued.

The Northeast Heath District added no new deaths attributable to COVID-19, and the region has not added a death to the disease since Tuesday, when 25 deaths were reached. That indicant of the disease seems to have level leveled off.

At the state level, the number of confirmed cases grew by 548 with the noon Daily Status Report on Saturday, and the number of deaths grew by 12.

The 548 cases were down from 635 on Friday but up from 475 a week ago, and the seven-day rolling average of cases grew from 707.6 to 718.0.

The 12 deaths in the state compared with 20 on Friday and 23 on April 18, and the seven-day rolling average dropped from 34.6 to 33.0.

For more details on the data released in the noon Daily Status Report on Saturday, with charts showing trends across time, please go to Oconee County Observations.