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NE Health District Adds Two COVID-19 Deaths, 36 New Cases
The positivity rates for molecular tests in both Oconee and Clarke county declined on Monday.
The Northeast Health District added two deaths from COVID-19 with the release of the Department of Public Health and the Department of Community Health reports on Monday and 36 new confirmed cases of the disease
The death listed in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report was of a 56-year-old male in Jackson County with a chronic condition. It was 35th death in Jackson County and the 262nd death in the Northeast Health District listed in that report.
The Department of Community Health, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Monday, listed one new death from COVID-19–at Heardmont Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in Elbert County--the fifth death from the disease at that facility and the 120th death in the Northeast Health District listed in the Department of Community Health report.
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The seven-day rolling average of added deaths for the Northeast Health District, based on the Daily Status Report, dropped to 1.3 on Monday from 1.4 on Sunday.
The 36 new COVID-19 cases listed in the Monday Daily Status Report were spread throughout the 10-county Northeast Health District, with Oconee County reporting a single case and Clarke County reporting four. Only Elbert County did not have a new case.
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The seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District dropped to 79.7 on Monday from 80.7 on Sunday.
The Department of Public Health listed only 27 new molecular tests for which verdicts were known for Oconee County on Monday, and none of them was listed as positive. The seven-day rolling average of positivity dropped to 6.0 on Monday from 7.8 on Sunday.
In Clarke County, according to the Daily Status Report, 236 new molecular tests with verdicts were reported on Monday, and 3.8 percent of them were positive. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic dropped from 3.8 on Sunday to 3.5 on Monday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that area hospitals had 63 COVID-19 patients, down from 64 on Sunday, 65 ICU beds in use out of a capacity of 70, up from 64 on Sunday, and 33 adult ventilators in use, up from 29 on Sunday.
For additional local data and for state data, with charts summarizing both local and state statistics, please go to Oconee County Observations.