NE Health District Adds 13 New COVID-19 Cases On Monday

The Georgia Department of Public Health reported 13 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its noon Daily Status Report on Monday, up from the count of 11 added on Sunday and the same number of cases it added on Monday a week ago.

The Daily Status report numbers vary by day of the week, and in each of the last three days–Saturday, Sunday and Monday–the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases was the same as the number on that day a week ago.

The rolling seven day average of confirmed cases remains stable for the last three days at 23.9 cases added per day. The reports typically list large numbers of new cases on Tuesdays through Fridays.

Oconee County did not add any cases from noon on Sunday to noon on Monday, and Clarke County added only two, the same number it added from noon on Saturday to noon on Sunday.

The Northeast Region reported a total of 24 deaths attributed to COVID-19 at noon on Monday, the same number it reported on Saturday and Sunday.

Across the state, the seven-day rolling average number of confirmed cases declined slightly, but average number of deaths across the last seven days increased.

The Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health on Monday announced that it is partnering with the Athens Free Clinic to provide mobile COVID-19 testing to Athens-Clarke County residents who lack access to healthcare.

The Department of Public Health continues to struggle with its reports, having to replace a faulty 7 p.m. Daily Status Report on Sunday, pulling its Long-Term Care Facility Reports from its web site, and still not indicating how it determines the county of cases and deaths listed in its Daily Status Reports.

For more on this story, with charts summarizing the data from the noon Monday Daily Status Report, please go to Oconee County Observations.