NE Health District Adds 43 New COVID-19 Cases And One Death

The Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health continued a three-day run of adding large numbers of confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, with 43 new cases pushing the seven-day average of added cases to 37.0 from 34.4 on Wednesday.

The 10-county district also added another death attributed to the disease, the sixth death in the last three days, and the seven-day average of added deaths stood at 1.7, down from 1.9 on Wednesday.

The new death was of a Barrow County woman, identified as more than 90 years old without a known chronic condition.

Oconee County did not add any new cases in the Daily Status Report on Thursday, but Clarke County added seven.

In the late Wednesday Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report, Oconee County added two deaths at the High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in North High Shoals in the far west of the county, bringing the total COVID-19 deaths at the facility to eight.

That report added two new long-term care facilities to the list of area homes with COVID-19 contamination, one in Elbert County and another in Jackson County, bringing the total in that county to three.

The Thursday report added a total of four new deaths, two new residents with COVID-19, and two new staff members with the disease from the Tuesday report. The other two deaths were in Barrow and Madison counties.

The Department of Community Health Wednesday report also erased from the Tuesday list–without explanation–the inclusion of 10 deaths at University Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Old Epps Bridge Road in Clarke County. The facility now is listed as having no deaths from the disease.

For further data on COVID-19, including the Thursday release of unemployment rates, please go to Oconee County Observations.