Clarke And Barrow Counties Report New COVID Deaths

Georgia reported 79 deaths due to COVID-19 in the 7 p.m. Daily Status Report Saturday, up from 69 in Saturday’s noon report. The rate of death to confirmed cases now stands at 3.2 percent.

The 7 p.m. Daily Status Report included rudimentary data on the death in Clarke County and the death in Barrow County first included in the noon status report.

The Clarke County death was of a 78-year-old woman. It is not known if she had underlying health conditions.

The Barrow County death was of a 66-year-old male with underlying conditions.

The age of the person whose death in Clarke County had been reported by the Department of Health on March 23 was changed from 67 to 60. He is described as having had underlying conditions.

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Oconee County, Clarke County, and the surrounding counties was unchanged in the 7 p.m. report from what had been shown in the noon report on Saturday.

In the state, the number of cases increased by 80 from noon Saturday, to 2,446, and the number of hospitalizations increased from 617 to 660.

Analysis of the trends from the report of the first case in the state on March 2 until today offers no evidence yet of a flattening of the curve.

For more on this story, please go to Oconee County Observations.