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NE Health District Records 55 COVID-19 Cases; Rolling Average Up
The Department of Public Health also listed one new death from COVID--19, of a 75-year-old female in Elbert County.
The Northeast Health District added 55 new COVID-19 cases and one death attributed to the disease in the Monday Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health.
The additions pushed up the seven-day rolling average of added cases, while the seven-day rolling average of deaths remained unchanged.
The death was of a 75-year-old female in Elbert County without a chronic condition.
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Elbert County now has 11 deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, and the 10-county Northeast Health District has 310. The seven-day rolling average of added deaths for the District was 1.6, the same as on Saturday and Sunday.
Every county except Olglethorpe added cases on Monday. Oconee County added four and Clarke County added 12. In Clarke County, the seven-day rolling average increased, while it remained unchanged in Oconee County.
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In the 10-county Northeast Health District as a whole, the seven-day rolling average increased from 80.6 on Sunday to 82.3 on Monday.
In Oconee County on Friday, verdicts for 29 molecular tests were recorded, and two of them were positive, for a positivity rate of 6.9 percent. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic was 4.1 percent, and the 14-day rolling average was 5.5 percent.
In Clarke County on Friday, verdicts for 90 tests were recorded, and nine of them were positive, for a positivity rate of 10.0 percent. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic was 6.4 percent, and the 14-day rolling average was 5.9 percent.
The Department of Community Health, in its Monday Long-Term Care Facility Report, listed 11 new COVID-19 Positive Residents and four new COVID-Positive Staff in the 38 facilities in the Northeast Health District covered by the report.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (59) increased by six from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (62) increased by 16 from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (30) increased by one from the day before.
For more local reporting, for state data, and for charts summarizing local and state data, please click through to Oconee County Observations.