NE Health District Adds 85 COVID-19 Cases And No New COVID Deaths

The Northeast Health District added 85 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, the fewest it has added per day in more than a week, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 158.6 from 160.4 on Sunday.

Mondays usually are light days in reporting cases to the Department of Public Health for its Daily Status Report, but the 85 cases compared with 98 a week earlier.

Every county in the 10-county Northeast Health District added cases, but Oconee County added only two and Clarke County added 24. Clarke County has added 486 new COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks, while Oconee County has added 102.

The Daily Status Report listed no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District on Monday, the third day in a row without a death, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths remained unchanged at 0.6.

The Department of Public Health still has not included in the Daily Status Report a death at a Clarke County personal care home that the Department of Community Health listed on Friday in its Long-Term Care Facility Report.

The Long-Term Care Facility Report for Monday listed six new COVID-19 cases among residents of a Clarke County nursing home, University Nursing and Rehab Center on Epps Bridge Road, which has reported 34 COVID-19 Positive Residents and 13 COVID-19 Positive Staff over time.

The Department of Community Health listed two new COVID-19 Positive Staff on Monday, one at a nursing home in Barrow County and the other at a nursing home in Elbert County.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency listed seven Critical Care Beds available in area hospitals on Monday, down from nine on Sunday and 10 on Saturday. Hospitals report their data to the Agency by noon on the date of the report.

For data from the state of Georgia and charts summarizing local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.