Health & Fitness
Clarke Adds COVID Death; Oconee Schools Report Drop In Cases
Rolling averages of COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline in the 10-county Northeast Health District.
Clarke County recorded its 43rd death due to COVID-19 in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Friday, ending an otherwise positive week of declining cases of the disease and deaths attributed to it in the Northeast Health District.
The Clarke County death was of a 53-year-old male without a known chronic condition.
With the single death in the 10-county Northeast Health District, the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped to 1.0 on Friday from 1.9 on Thursday in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
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The Department of Community Health in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Friday also listed one new COVID-19 death at Heardmont Health And Rehabilitation nursing home in Elbert County, but that death does not appear in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
The Department of Public Health Listed 97 new COVID-19 cases in the Northeast Health District on Friday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 86.0 from 91.4 on Thursday
Every county in the 10-county District added at least one case on Friday, with Oconee County adding six and Clarke County adding 22. The rolling average of added cases in Oconee on Friday was 4.6, the same as on Thursday, and for Clarke it was 25.1, down from 28.6 on Thursday.
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Oconee County had 6.7 percent of its molecular tests listed on Friday as positive, 9.3 percent on Thursday, and a seven-day rolling average for this statistic of 6.1 percent.
In Clarke County, the percent positive for Friday was 3.5 and for Thursday it was 6.0. The seven-day rolling average was 5.1 percent.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Friday that area hospitals had 71 COVID-19 patients, up from 62 on Thursday, 64 ICU beds in use out of a capacity of 70, up from 63 on Thursday, and 26 adult ventilators in use, down from 27 on Thursday.
Oconee County Schools reported a sharp drop in the number of Active COVID-19 Cases--from 10 last week to three on Friday--and a drop from 56 Active Quarantines Due To Close Contact to 33.
For more local reporting and for state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.