Average Number of COVID-19 Cases Holds Steady In Region And State

The Department of Public Health added 16 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the 10-county Northeast Health District with its noon Daily Status Report on Sunday, down from the 20 added on Saturday and from the 18 added Sunday a week ago.

The seven-day rolling average of added COVID-19 cases in the Health District, which includes Oconee and Clarke counties, dropped just slightly from 18.6 cases per day to 18.3 on Sunday.

The local data closely matched these reported in the Daily Status Report for the state as a whole, which added 472 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, down from 775 on Saturday but up just slightly from the 469 on May 3.

The seven-day rolling average for the state was 623.9 new cases per day on Sunday, up just slightly from the 623.4 average on Saturday.

No new deaths attributable to COVID-19 were reported on Sunday for the Northeast Health District, and only four new deaths were reported for the state.

Those four deaths were down from the 44 reported on Saturday but down just slightly from the six reported on May 3. The seven-day rolling average of new deaths per day dropped from 33.3 on Saturday to 33.0 on Sunday.

The two deaths at an Oconee County Nursing Home reported in the Department of Public Health Long-Term Care Facility Report on Friday still do not appear in the Daily Status Report figures–and may not ever appear there.

Barrow and Walton counties also have deaths listed in the Long-Term Care Facility Report that do not appear in the Daily Status Report.

Data from Georgia Emergency Management Agency cited by Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday show a consistent drop in the number of COVID-19 Hospitalizations in the state.

For more on this story, with charts showing the local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.