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NE Health District Adds Eight COVID-19 Deaths, Cases Decline

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths from COVID-19 increased on Saturday, but the rolling average of added cases declined.

Posted Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 10:42 pm ET

Below is a summary of COVID-19 data on Saturday for Oconee and Clarke counties and for the entire 10-county Northeast Health District.

The Northeast Health District added eight new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing to 45 the number of added deaths in the last seven days.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 6.4 deaths per day, up from 5.9 deaths per day on Friday.
Two of the deaths were in Clarke County.
The Northeast Health District added 470 new cases, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases declined. The seven-day rolling average of added cases has now declined three days in a row.
The positivity rate for molecular tests also has dropped in Oconee and Clarke counties and across almost all of the counties in the Northeast Health District.
The number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals remained stable, with the number of ICU beds in use dropping by one and the number of ventilators in use increasing by one.

For details and for state comparisons, please click through to Oconee County Observations.