Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds 34 New COVID-19 Cases; Total Is 595
Nine of the 10 counties in the Health District added cases, with Clarke adding eight and Oconee one.
Nine of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District of the Georgia Department of Public Health added confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the noon Daily Status Report for Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 595.
The 34 new cases were up from the 27 added at noon on Thursday, but down from the 38 cases added on Friday a week ago.
The rolling average of number of new cases added per day dropped from 20.6 to 20.0 on Friday.
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The rolling average was 23.9 cases added per day on April 20, and that was the high point for the Northeast Health District going back to the advent of the disease in the region on March 14.
Clarke County added eight new cases with the Friday noon Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health, Jackson County added seven, and Walton and Oglethorpe each added five.
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Oconee County added a single case, bringing its total to 54. Morgan County did not add any cases.
The Northeast Health District added no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the 24-hour-period ending at noon on Friday, and the total for the District is 25.
The state added 635 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 from noon on Thursday to noon on Friday. It added 20 deaths.
The seven-day rolling average of number of confirmed cases in the state dropped markedly from 834.7 cases per day to 707.6, and the seven-day-rolling average of deaths dropped from 40.7 to 34.6.
The Daily Status Report on Friday continued to include the raw data on confirmed cases and deaths that have been a part of the report from its launch in the middle of last month and a set of charts based on different measures not being released to the public.
The charts based on those different measures provide a much more optimistic picture of the decline of the disease in the state than do the raw data available to the public.
For more on the story, with charts showing the data released on Friday and illustrating the differences between the raw data and charts based on data not released to the public, please go to Oconee County Observations.