NE Health District Has Record Numbers Of COVID-19 Deaths, Cases

The Department of Public Health, in Tuesday’s Daily Status Report, listed 10 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District, a record number for a single day, with four of those deaths in Athens-Clarke County.

The Northeast Health District also added 294 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, also a record, with 154 of those in Clarke County.

Every county in the 10-county District except Oglethorpe County added cases. Oconee County added eight.

Prior to the 10 deaths reported on Tuesday, the previous high number for a single day had been seven, reported by the Department of Public Health in the Daily Status Report on June 2. The daily total since that time had never gone above five.

Six of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District recorded a death on Tuesday: Barrow, Greene, Jackson, Oglethorpe, Walton, and Clarke.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Department of Public Health report for the Northeast Health District increased to 2.6 on Tuesday from 1.9 on Monday.

The Clarke County deaths are in addition to the four nursing home deaths in the county reported by the Department of Community Health on Thursday, Friday and Monday.

The Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday reported that area hospitals had 104 COVID-19 patients, up from 101 on Monday, 61 ICU Beds In Use, up from 56 on Monday, and 27 ventilators in use, the same as on Monday.

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