Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds 50 COVID-19 Cases; 23 In Oconee, Clarke
No new deaths were reported in the Northeast Health District in the Daily Status Report for Sunday.
Oconee County added nine new cases of COVID-19 in the Daily Status Report on Sunday, and Clarke County added 14. The remaining eight counties in the Northeast Health District added 27 cases, bringing the total for the District to 50.
The 50 added cases were fewer than the 61 added last Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 96.1 on Sunday from 97.7 on Saturday.
Each of the counties in the 10-county Northeast Health District added at least one case on Sunday with the exception of Greene County.
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The Northeast Health District did not report any new deaths attributable to the disease on Sunday and, in fact, one case reported for Barrow County on Saturday was moved to Gwinnett County with the Sunday Daily Status Report.
Gwinnett County is not in the Northeast Health District, so the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District dropped to 1.1 from 1.3 on Saturday.
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The Georgia Emergency Management Agency Situation Report COVID-19 on Sunday listed 14 Critical Care Beds available in area hospitals, up from six on Saturday.
The Department of Community Health did not issue a Long-Term Care Facility Report on Sunday.
For state data on COVID-19 for Sunday, charts summarizing state and regional data, and an explanation of how it is possible to determine what happened to the Barrow County death from Saturday’s report, please go to Oconee County Observations.