NE Health District Adds COVID Cases; State At Record Level

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continued to climb on Sunday in the state of Georgia as a whole and in the 10-county Northeast Health District.

The state added 892 new cases of COVID-19, and the 10-county Northeast Health District added 14.

For both the state and the Northeast Health District, the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased.

In fact, the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the state was at its highest point ever on Sunday, with an average of 1,002.9 cases added each day. That figure had been 1,001.1 on Saturday.

For the 10-County Northeast Health District, the seven-day rolling average increased to 22.9 cases per day, up from 20.7 on Saturday.

All but two of the counties in the District added at least one case. Oconee County added a single case, and Clarke County added five cases.

The Department of Public Health Daily Status Report listed only one new death attributed to COVID-19 on Sunday, but it also eliminated three cases from its archive of deaths attributed to the disease, so the actual number of added cases was four.

The number of deaths listed for the Northeast Health District–102–was unchanged from the Saturday report.

For more on the story, with charts summarizing the data, please go to Oconee County Observations.