NE Health District Adds Two COVID-19 Deaths And 161 Cases

The 10-county Northeast Health District added 161 COVID-19 cases and two deaths attributed to the disease with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Thursday.

Every county in the District added cases on Thursday, with Oconee County adding five and Clarke County adding 96. The District contributed 8.3 percent of the cases in the state, down from 9.9 percent on Wednesday. The District is 5.0 percent of the state’s population.

The seven-day rolling average of added cases was 200.9 on Thursday, compared with 219.4 on Wednesday.

The two deaths were of a 71-year-old male in Clarke County with a chronic condition and of a 74-year-old female in Elbert County with a chronic condition. Clarke County now has 36 deaths listed in the Daily Status Report as due to COVID-19, and Elbert County has two.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District was unchanged at 2.0 deaths per day.

The Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency on Thursday reported that area hospitals had 93 COVID-19 patients, up from 78 on Wednesday, 68 ICU Beds In Use out of a capacity of 70, up from 63 on Wednesday, and 28 ventilators in use, down from 29 on Wednesday.

The Department of Community Health in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Thursday listed 14 new COVID-19 Positive Residents at the Northeast Health District’s 35 long-term care facilities with COVID cases, all at PruittHealth–Spring Valley nursing home in Elbert County.

The Department of Community Health listed seven new COVID-19 Positive Staff at Northeast Health District long-term care facilities, six of them at PruittHealth–Spring Valley and another at Nancy Hart Nursing Center, also in Elbert County.

For more local reporting and for state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.