NE Health District Adds Three COVID-19 Deaths; One In Oconee

For the second day in a row, the Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health added three deaths attributed to COVID-19, one of them in Oconee County, bringing to 16 the total number of deaths in Oconee County attributed to the disease.

The 10-county Northeast Health District has added 11 deaths in the last week, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths on Saturday was 1.6, the same as the day before. The District had added three deaths last Saturday as well.

The Oconee County death was of a sixty-five-old female with a chronic condition.

Morgan County had its first ever death attributed to the disease in the Saturday Daily Status Report, of a male with no chronic condition of 90 or more years in age.

Greene County recorded the death of an 86-year-old male with a chronic condition, the 13th death attributed to COVID-19 in that county,

Total number of COVID-19 deaths in the Northeast Health District now stands at 157.

The District added 139 confirmed COVID-19 cases with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Saturday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped for the fourth day in a row to 123.3

Every county in the District added cases, with Oconee County adding five and Athens-Clarke County adding 29.

The Department of Community Health does not issue its Long-Term Care Facility Report on the weekend, but the Georgia Emergency Management Agency in its Situation Report COVID-19 on Saturday listed six Critical Care Beds available, down from 10 on Friday.

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