NE Health District Adds 298 COVID Cases, Three COVID Deaths

With the listing of 298 new cases of COVID-19 in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Saturday, the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District increased to 380.9, up just slightly from the 379.4 average of Friday.

The 10-county Northeast Health District also added three deaths, including one in Clarke County, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District increased to 1.7 on Saturday from 1.3 on Friday.

The Clarke County deaths was of a woman aged 90-plus without a chronic condition. The other deaths were of a 78-year-old female in Barrow County with a chronic condition and of an 80-year-old male in Jackson County without a chronic condition.

Clarke County now has 59 deaths attributed to COVID-19, Barrow County has 62, and Jackson County has 57. The 10-county District as a whole has 382.

Oconee County added 27 cases of COVID-19 in the Saturday Daily Status Report, and Clarke County added 72. The seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 29.3 in Oconee County from 27.0 on Friday. In Clarke County, the seven-day rolling average increased from 69.4 to 70.1.

After a three day absence, links to data from the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) appeared again on Saturday on the Department of Public Health web site.

GHA and GEMA reported on Saturday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (153) increased by four from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (66) was the same as the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (35) increased by three from the day before.

Oconee County schools are not in session, but administrators at the schools continue to notify parents of cases among the school populations. Two notices involving three cases went out on Saturday.

For more details on this story, please go to Oconee County Observations.