Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds 88 COVID-19 Cases; Drop In Cases Halted
The District also added a death attributed to the virus in the Saturday release of the Daily Status Report.
The Northeast Health District added 88 confirmed COVID-19 cases with the Saturday release of the Department of Public Health’s Daily Status Report, producing a seven-day rolling average of added cases that has been relatively unchanged for the last week.
Every county in the 10-county Northeast Health District added at least one case, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases was 79.1 on Saturday. That figure had been 79.0 on Friday.
Oconee County added five cases and Clarke County added 39. In both counties, the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased slightly on Saturday to 4.4 cases per day in Oconee County and 23.4 cases per day in Clarke County.
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Cases in the 10-county Northeast Health District had been in a sharp and consistent decline until they began to plateau a week ago. Oconee and Clarke counties show that same pattern.
The Daily Status Report included one new death in the Northeast Health District attributed to COVID-19, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped from 1.7 on Friday to 1.3 on Saturday. The District had added four deaths last Saturday.
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The death added on Saturday was of a female in Jackson County with a chronic condition listed as 90 or more years of age.
The number of added deaths from the virus in the District, which had been dropping, also seems to have plateaued in the last week.
The Department of Public Health reported 151 molecular tests in Oconee County on Saturday with a positivity rate of 3.3 percent, and the seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate statistic is 7.1, up from 6.9 on Friday.
In Clarke County, the Department of Public Health reported 616 molecular tests with a positivity rate of 5.2 percent. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic is 4.3 percent, the same as on Friday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Saturday that area hospitals had 65 COVID-19 patients, up from 60 on Friday, 66 ICU beds in use out of a capacity of 70, the same as on Friday, and 26 adult ventilators in use, down from 33 on Friday.
For more on the story, with charts summarizing state and local data, please go to Oconee County Observations.