Health District Adds 16 COVID Deaths; Rolling Average Increases

Below is a summary of COVID-19 data on Friday for Oconee and Clarke counties and for the entire 10-county Northeast Health District.

• The Northeast Health District added 16 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Friday, the second highest number ever added in a single day.
• Those deaths were in eight of the 10 counties in the District, with both Oconee and Clarke counties reporting a death.
• The seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased.
• The District added 210 new cases of the disease, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases continued to decline.
• Oconee County Schools reported an increase is the number of Active Cases of COVID-19 but a decrease in the number of quarantines.
• The number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals declined for the fifth day in a row.
• All of the COVID-19 vaccines allocated to the state have now shipped, and 76.7 percent of the allocated vaccines have been administered.

For details and for state comparisons, please click through to Oconee County Observations.