Health & Fitness
NE Health District And State Set Records In Adding COVID-19 Cases
The Daily Status Report for Friday listed three new deaths, including one in Oconee County.
The Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health added 154 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, a new record, and the seven-day rolling average increased to 93.9 cases, also a new record.
Across the state, 4,484 new cases were added in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report for Friday, also a new record, pushing the seven-day rolling average to 2,959.7 cases, a new record.
The 10-County Northeast Health District added three deaths attributed to COVID-19, and the state added 35. Neither is a record, but they did push the seven-day rolling average up in both cases.
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Oconee County added 11 new cases, and Clarke County added 56. Each of the other eight counties in the district also added two or more cases on Friday.
One of the three deaths listed in the Daily Status Report on Friday was of 68-year-old Oconee County female with no chronic conditions. Oconee County now has 12 deaths attributed to the disease, and Clarke County has 15.
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The other two deaths were of an 84-year-old female in Barrow County without a chronic condition and of a 57-year-old male in Jackson County, also without a chronic condition.
The Department of Community Health has listed four deaths at a Jackson County nursing home since June 30, but none of them has been recorded in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
It is unlikely the 57-year-old whose death was reported in the Daily Status Report on Friday was a nursing home resident, though it is impossible to rule that out with certainty given the information released to the public.
The Department of Community Health reported on Friday that one additional staff member at the University Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Athens was COVID-19 positive, bringing the total staff at the facility having reported positive to four.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency, in its Friday Situation Report COVID-19, listed 60 Critical Care Beds in use at area hospitals and 10 Critical Care Beds available, the same numbers reported in the Thursday Situation Report.
For more on the story, with charts summarizing the key data, please go to Oconee County Observations.