NE Health District Adds Two COVID-19 Deaths, One In Oconee County

The Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Friday listed 190 new Northeast Health District COVID-19 cases and two COVID-19 deaths–one in Oconee County–resulting in small drops in the seven-day rolling averages of cases and deaths.

The death in Oconee County was of a 63-year-old female without a chronic condition, while the second death was of an 80-year-male without a known chronic condition in Walton County.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped from 2.0 on Thursday to 1.7 on Friday.

The Department of Community Health, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Friday, listed a death at Social Circle Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Walton County that may or may not be the death recorded in the Daily Status Report. Deaths at nursing and personal care homes often do not appear in the Daily Status Report.

Each of the 10 counties in the District except Oglethorpe added at least one case on Friday, with Oconee County adding 10 and Clarke County adding 109.

Oconee County Schools reported on Friday that the total number of Active COVID-19 Cases in the schools as of 4 p.m. on Friday was 10, and the total number of Active Quarantines Due To Close Contact was 38.

The number of Active Cases is down by one from last week, while the number of Quarantines is down by 44.

The Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency on Friday reported that area hospitals had 91 COVID-19 patients, down from 93 on Thursday, 65 ICU Beds In Use out of a capacity of 70, down from 68 on Thursday, and 35 ventilators in use, up from 28 on Thursday.

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