NE Health District Adds 36 COVID Cases, 2 Deaths In State Reports

The Northeast Health District added 33 COVID-19 cases confirmed by molecular tests on Monday and three positive cases based on antigen tests, according to the Department of Public Health. The Department did not list any deaths in the Monday Daily Status Report.

The Department of Community Health on Monday, however, reported a massive outbreak of COVID-19 at Magnolia Estates personal care home in Elberton in Elbert County that included two deaths.

With the addition of the 33 confirmed cases in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Monday, the seven-day rolling average of added confirmed cases based on molecular tests declined to 100.3 from 104.1 on Sunday.

Three counties in the Northeast Health District did not add any cases based on molecular tests. Oconee County added a single case, and Clarke County added 11. The seven-day rolling average of added cases remained unchanged in Oconee County and increased just slightly in Clarke County.

The Department of Public Health in Monday’s Daily Status Report listed 16 molecular (PCR) tests for the corona virus in Oconee County on last Friday, with two of those positive. Clarke County had 56 tests with seven of them positive.

For Oconee County, the positivity rate on Friday was 12.5 percent, compared with 5.9 percent on Friday of a week earlier, and the seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate for those tests was 8.3 percent, up from 6.6 percent a week earlier.

For Clarke County, the positivity rate on Friday was 12.5 percent, compared with 4.4 percent on Friday of the previous week, and the seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate was 6.5 percent, compared with 5.5 percent a week earlier.

The Northeast Health District added only three positive cases based on antigen tests in the Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added antigen positive cases declined to 39.1 on Monday from 39.3 on Sunday.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the 10-county Northeast Health District–based on the Department of Public Health listings, which did not include the Elbert County deaths--dropped to 1.3 on Monday from 1.4 on Sunday.

The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (79) decreased by one from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (63) decreased by one from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (28) increased by two from the day before.

This summary does not include information from additional reporting on COVID-19 locally and across the state that is included in the full post. Please click through to that report on Oconee County Observations.