NE Health District Adds Second Highest Number Ever Of COVID Cases

The Northeast Health District added 39 cases of confirmed COVID-19 with the noon Daily Status Report on Saturday, the largest number it added in a 24-hour period since April 7 and the second largest number added in a 24-hour-period going back to the advent of the disease in the district on March 14.

Barrow County added 13 cases, Jackson added 10, Clarke added five, and Oconee County added a single case.

The seven-day rolling average for confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Northeast Health region increased from 22.4 cases to 24.3 cases on Saturday.

The region added no new deaths, and the total stands at 29.

Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry reported on Saturday that the Georgia Emergency Management Agency sent him addresses for two new Active COVID-19 cases in the county.

Berry has reported adding Active Cases in five of the last seven days, with five cases added on Friday. The number of Active Cases is 20.

The Georgia Department of Public Health issued a Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Report late on Friday that lists High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation on New High Shoals Road as having one COVID Positive Resident and one COVID Positive Staff.

This is the first report of a COVID-19 case in an Oconee County nursing or personal care facility.

Across the state, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased by 999 at noon on Saturday, and the seven-day rolling average went up from 712.4 on Friday to 776.9 on Saturday.

The state reported 24 new deaths attributed to COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total to 1,171 and increasing the seven-day rolling average from 36.4 on Friday to 38.1.

Though testing has increased across the state in recent days, no new tests were recorded with the noon Daily Status Report on Saturday since issuance of the noon Daily Status Report on Friday.

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