Health & Fitness
Jackson And Walton Counties Add COVID-19 Deaths In Friday Report
Oconee County Added Five New Active COVID-19 Cases.
Both Walton and Jackson counties reported additional deaths from COVID-19 in the Daily Status Report of the Georgia Department of Public Health released just after noon on Friday.
A 77-year-old female in Jackson County and a 56-year-old male in Walton County were included in what now is a list of 29 COVID-19 deaths in the Department of Public Health Northeast Health District, which includes Oconee and Clarke counties.
These were the first new deaths reported in the district since Tuesday, when a death was added in Greene County.
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Overall, the district added 24 new COVID-19 cases with the 12:25 p.m. Friday Daily Status Report, including four in Oconee County and four in Clarke County.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District stood at 22.4, a drop from 23.9 on Thursday.
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Sheriff Scott Berry reported that the Georgia Emergency Management Agency informed him that five new Active COVID-19 cases were added to Oconee County on Friday, bringing the total of Active Cases in Oconee to 19.
It is not possible to reconcile without additional information not made public the figures from the Daily Status Report and from the Emergency Management Agency, though both come from the Department of Public Health.
Across the state, 1,101 confirmed COVID-19 cases were added between 11:25 a.m. on Thursday and 12.25 p.m. on Friday in the Daily Status Report, bringing the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 712.4, up from 645.9 on Thursday. The Daily Status Report also shows testing greatly expanding in the state.
The Daily Status Report no longer is using a consistent release time, and no 11:25 a.m. update was provided on Friday.
The Daily Status Report also now includes two estimates of new cases, and both show growth in cases in recent days.
The Daily Status Report listed 40 new deaths on Friday, bringing the total to 1,147 and the seven-day-rolling average up to 36.4 from 33.6 on Thursday.
For more on this story, with charts showing the data from the Friday Daily Status Report, please go to Oconee County Observations.