Department Of Public Health Lists 69 COVID Cases In NE District

The Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health listed 69 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Northeast Health District on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased for the fifth day in a row to 104.1 cases per day.

Sundays are a generally light reporting day, and Morgan and Greene counties did not add any cases, but each of the remaining eight counties in the Northeast Health District added at least one case.

Oconee County added two cases, and Clarke County added 13 cases. For both counties, the seven-day rolling average of added cases fell just slightly on Sunday.

The Department of Public Health removed nine cases of COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District identified through antigen tests, as opposed to molecular tests used for the confirmed cases, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases based on antigen or rapid tests dropped to 39.3 from 46.9 on Saturday.

Neither Oconee nor Clarke counties added any new cases based on the antigen tests, so the number of positive cases based on that tests stood at 312 in Oconee County and 1,164 in Clarke County.

The number of cases based on the molecular tests was 943 in Oconee County and 6,261 in Clarke County.

The Daily Status Report did not list any new deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in Sunday’s Daily Status Report

The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (80) increased by five from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (64) decreased by three from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (26) increased by one from the day before.

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