Health & Fitness
Clarke Adds 17 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases, Oconee Adds Two
The Northeast Health District of the Georgia Department of Public Health added 33 cases, and the seven-day rolling average increased.
Clarke County added 17 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 in the 24-hour period ending at noon on Monday, while Walton County added seven cases, Barrow County added five cases, and Oconee and Jackson counties each added two cases.
The 10-county Northeast Health District of the Georgia Department of Public Health added 33 cases with the noon Daily Status Report on Tuesday, up from the 12 added on Monday and from the 24 added on Tuesday a week ago.
The seven-day rolling average of cases in the Northeast Health District went up from 20.6 on Monday to 21.9 on Tuesday.
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The region also added a death, with a new death recorded in Greene County. The Daily Status Report dropped on Tuesday details of individual deaths around the state.
Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry also reported that the Department of Public Health has added one active case of COVID-19 to its report to the county’s 911 Center, bringing the total number of known active cases to 15.
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Across the state, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased by 778 to 24,551. The number had increased by only 372 on Monday, but it had increased by 934 a week ago, and the rolling average for the seven-day period dropped from 689.4 to 667.1
The number of deaths attributed to the disease in the state has now topped the 1,000 mark. The final figure in the noon Tuesday Daily Status Report was 1,020.
The state added 78 deaths on Tuesday, up from 30 on Monday and up from 66 a week ago. The seven-day-rolling average increased from 29.9 on Monday to 31.6 on Tuesday.
For the first time ever in a Daily Status Report, no new tests were recorded. The total number of tests stood at 127,169, or 1.2 percent of the state’s estimated 10.6 million people.
The Department of Public Health radically modified the format and content of the Daily Status Report on Monday evening, and the new report provides large charts based on recalculation of dates of the data points showing more positive interpretations of the data being released than do the raw numbers themselves.
For more details on the Tuesday Daily Status Report, with charts summarizing the data, please go to Oconee County Observations.