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NE Health District ADDS 2 COVID-19 Deaths, 64 Cases
Area hospitals reported increases in patients, ICU bed use, ventilator use.
The Northeast Health District added two COVID-19 Deaths On Monday, one in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report and the other in the Department of Community Affairs Long-Term Care Facility Report.
The death listed in the Department Public Health report was of an 81-year-female in Walton County without a known chronic condition.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths listed in the Daily Status Report, the state’s official count of deaths, increased from 2.3 deaths per day on Sunday to 2.4 deaths per day on Monday.
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The death in the Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report was at Legacy Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in Greene County.
The Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Monday listed 64 new COVID-19 cases in the 10-county Northeast Health District, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 123.7 on Monday from 124.9 on Sunday.
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The Department of Public Health reported 51 new molecular tests in Oconee County in its Monday report and stated that 5.9 percent of them were positive. The seven-day rolling average of the percent positive statistic on Monday was 7.5, down from 7.8 on Sunday.
In Clarke County, the Department of Public Health reported 418 tests on Monday and that 3.8 percent of them were positive. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic dropped from 8.7 on Sunday to 7.5 on Monday.
The Department of Community Health reported on Monday three additional residents who tested positive for COVID-19 at long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District and five additional staff cases of the disease.
Indicators of the impact of COVID-19 on area hospitals all moved in the wrong direction on Monday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported that area hospitals had 64 COVID-19 patients, up from 54 on Sunday, 60 ICU beds in use out of a capacity of 70, up from 57 on Sunday, and 30 adult ventilators in use, up from 28 on Sunday.
For more local reporting and for data for the state as a whole, please go to Oconee County Observations.