Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds 374 COVID-19 Cases, 45 In Oconee County
A death in Barrow County was included in the Daily Status Report on Sunday.
The Northeast Health District added 374 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 361 of them confirmed via molecular tests and 13 of them the product of rapid, antigen tests, as well as one of the two deaths from the disease reported in the state.
The death was of a 79-year-old female in Barrow County without a known chronic condition. The listing followed a death in the county in Saturday’s Daily Status Report and was the 63rd in the county attributed to the disease.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District climbed just slightly to 1.9 on Sunday from 1.7 on Saturday. Sunday is a light reporting day, and the District didn’t have any deaths reported last Sunday and has had no death recorded on six of the last 13 Sundays.
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In fact, in the 12 Sundays from Oct. 4 to Oct. 13, the District recorded nine deaths, but, when the deaths were sorted by date of occurrence, 12 of the 100 deaths in that time period were on a Sunday.
The addition of the 374 cases of COVID-19 pushed the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 387.1, a new record high.
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Oconee County added 45 cases and Clarke County added 51. Oconee County added 46 cases on Friday and on Wednesday of last week, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases in Oconee County has climbed to 31.4, a new record high. The rolling average on Saturday had been 27.3.
The seven-day rolling average in Clarke County dropped on Sunday to 67.1 from 68.7 on Saturday.
Oconee County schools ended the fall term on Friday, but principals continue to send email messages to parents regarding identified cases of COVID-19 at the schools. Three new cases were announced on Sunday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (157) 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 (32) decreased by three from the day before.
For additional local reporting and for state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.