Health & Fitness
Daily Status Report Lists 76 New COVID-19 Cases And One New Death
The death was of an 84-year-old Oconee County man with with a chronic condition. Confirmed hospitalizations and ventilator use increasing.
The Northeast Health District added 76 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death attributed to the disease with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Wednesday.
The death was of an 84-year-old Oconee County male with a chronic condition, and his death brings to 11 the number in the county from the disease since its outbreak in March.
Oconee County on Wednesday added six new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing its cumulative total to 200. Clarke County added 29 cases, and its cumulative total now stands at 804, with 15 deaths.
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The seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District dropped to 82.4 on Wednesday from 87.0 on Tuesday. The District had added 108 cases a week ago. The seven-day rolling average of deaths increased from 0 to 0.1.
The Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report for Wednesday added two new long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District to its list of such facilities with COVID-19 cases among its residents and staff, including one in Oconee County.
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St. Mary’s Highland Hills Village, 1660 Jennings Mill Road, on the Clarke County border, reported having four staff members with COVID-19. The other newly added facility was in Jackson County, which reported having three staff members with the disease.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Wednesday that the number of available Critical Care Beds at area hospitals dropped to three, the lowest number reported going back to April 17, when these data were first released publicly.
The GEMA report does not specify how many, if any, of the 67 occupied Critical Care Beds were by COVID-19 patients.
GEMA reported that the number of Emergency Room Beds available dropped from 101 in the Tuesday report to 93 in the Wednesday report and the number of General Inpatient Beds available dropped from 132 on Tuesday to 112 on Wednesday.
For data for the entire state Georgia and charts summarizing local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.
