Northeast Health District Adds Record Number Of New COVID Cases

The 10-county Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health added a record 131 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with the issuance of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Friday.

Included were 54 new cases in Clarke County and 10 in Oconee County.

Clarke County has added 198 cases in the last week and Oconee County has added 30. Every county in the district added multiple cases on Friday.

The University of Georgia reported on Thursday that 189 cases had been recorded among faculty, staff and students, up from 121 on June 27. Not all of those are likely to be reflected in the Department of Public Health tally for Clarke County.

The University reports that “many of the cases included in the count include those reported to the UHC (University Health Center) from the hometowns of students or employees who have not been on campus during this timeframe.”

The seven-day rolling average of added cases for the Northeast Health District on Friday was 71.4, also a new record.

The Daily Status Report included no new deaths in the Northeast Health District, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths was 0.0, as no new deaths have been reported in the last week.

The Department of Community Health did not issue a Long-Term Care Facility Report on Friday but the report issued late on Thursday did not include any new deaths or cases at the 25 long-term care facilities in the area with COVID-19 cases.

For data from the state as a whole as well as charts summarizing local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.