Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds 82 COVID Cases; Rolling Average Increases
The District did not add any deaths with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Sunday.
The Northeast Health District added 82 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Sunday Department of Public Health Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased for the sixth day in a row.
The confirmed cases are based on molecular tests, and the Daily Status Report subtracted four cases reported earlier based on the less reliable, rapid, antigen tests.
The Daily Status Report on Sunday did not report any new deaths attributed to the novel corona virus in the 10-county Northeast Health District.
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Each of the 10 counties added at least one new confirmed case of COVID-19 based on molecular tests, with Oconee County adding two cases and Clarke County adding nine.
The seven-day rolling average of added confirmed cases in the District increased to 121.1 on Sunday from 119.3 on Saturday. That average had been 100.3 on Monday. The rolling average for Oconee County was unchanged on Sunday and decreased slightly for Clarke County.
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The seven-day rolling average of added cases based on antigen tests increased to 49.9 on Sunday from 49.1 on Saturday–even with the loss of four cases. Last Sunday, the Department of Public Health eliminated nine cases it had earlier recorded.
Sundays are light reporting days for the District and the state as a whole, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District remained unchanged from Saturday at 1.3. The District had not added any deaths last Sunday as well.
The District did add one probable death from COVID-19, bringing the total number of probable deaths reported by the Department of Public Health to 24. The newly listed probable death was in Madison County.
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 (79) decreased by four from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (63) increased by four from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (27) decreased by one from the day before.
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