Northeast Health District Adds Nine New COVID-19 Confirmed Cases

The first day of the work week generally is a light days for reporting for the Department of Public Health COVID-19 Daily Status Report, and the Northeast Health District added only nine confirmed cases in the report issued just before noon on Monday.

Oconee County did not add any new cases, while Clarke County added three cases and Barrow County added four.

The seven-day rolling average of added cases for the 10-county Northeast Health District dropped slightly from 27.3 cases per day to 26.9.

No new deaths were reported in the Northeast Health District, with the total standing at 30.

Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry reported that the Georgia Emergency Management Agency added one Active COVID case to the county on Sunday but none on Monday, bringing to the total number of Active Cases to 21.

Across the state, COVID-19 cases now have been confirmed in all of the state’s159 counties except for Glascock County west of Augusta, and the total number of cases increased by 501 to 29,103 with the Daily Status Report issued at 11:25 a.m. on Monday.

Testing also has increased, though at an irregular pace, according to the data released by the Department of Public Health.

The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 increased by 27 on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of deaths decreased just slightly from 37.9 to 37.4.

The Department of Public Health has released new data in recent days dating death by time of occurrence rather than by the time the death was recorded by the Department of Public Health.

A comparison of the rolling averages for the two different ways of measuring deaths shows that during the period for which the Department of Public Health says complete data are available, neither measure shows deaths are declining.

For more on this story, with charts summarizing the data from the 11:25 a.m. Daily Status Report for Monday, please go to Oconee County Observations.