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Four Counties Add COVID-19 Deaths, Pushing Up Rolling Average
The Daily Status Report also added 108 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased.
The Northeast Health District added five deaths from COVID-19 spread across four of the District’s 10 counties on Saturday, and rolling averages of both deaths and new confirmed cases of the disease increased.
Two of the added deaths were in Elbert County, of a 72-year-old female with a chronic condition and of an 90 plus-year-old female with a chronic condition. These are the seventh and eighth deaths in the county listed in the Daily Status Report.
Jackson County had a new death listed, of a 76-year-old male with a chronic condition, bringing to 36 the number of COVID-19 deaths in that county.
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Morgan County recorded only its fourth death from the disease, of a 79-year-old male without a chronic condition.
The fifth death listed in the Northeast Health District on Saturday was of a 75-year-old male in Walton County without a chronic condition. Walton now has 63 deaths from COVID-19, the largest number of any of the 10 counties in the District.
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The Daily Status Report also removed from its list of COVID-19 deaths a death previously listed on Sept. 6 of a 75-year-old female in Greene County without a chronic condition. The number of deaths from the disease in Greene County now stands at 24.
With the net addition of four COVID-19 deaths, the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District on Saturday was 2.1, up from 1.7 on Friday.
The District added 108 new cases, with each of the 10 counties adding at least a case, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 80.7 on Saturday from 77.9 on Friday.
Oconee County added only three cases, but Clarke County added 47, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County increased while the average dropped slightly in Oconee County.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) on Saturday reported that area hospitals had 45 COVID-19 patients, down from 52 on Friday, 60 ICU beds in use out of a capacity of 70, down from 60 on Friday, and 30 adult ventilators in use, the same as on Friday.
For more about the state COVID-19 reports on Saturday, please click through to Oconee County Observations.