NE Health District Adds New COVID-19 Death and 146 Cases

The Department of Public Health listed another COVID-19 Death in the Northeast Health District with release of the Daily Status Report on Saturday. The Report also listed 146 new confirmed cases of the disease.

It was the 16th day in a row the Daily Status Report included a death in the 10-county Northeast Health District, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease in the District to 191.

The death was of a 54-year-old male in Greene County without a known chronic condition.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths was 2.3, compared with 2.4 on Friday. A week ago the Daily Status Report listed two deaths in the District.

The 146 new COVID-19 cases brought the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the District to 129.0 on Saturday, nearly the same as the 129.1 on Friday.

Every county in the district added cases, with Oconee County adding five and Clarke County adding 52.

The Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency on Saturday reported that area hospitals had 110 COVID-19 patients, down from 111 on Friday, 65 ICU Beds In Use, up from 61 on Friday, and 27 ventilators in use, down from 28 on Friday.

The Georgia Department of Labor at the end of the week released its preliminary estimates of unemployment in the state in July, giving evidence of the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy.

Though the June figures had shown declines in unemployment, as had those in May, July unemployment remained largely unchanged from the month before.

For more on the story, please go to Oconee County Observations.