Health & Fitness
Northeast Heath District Adds No New COVID Cases Or Deaths
Oconee and Barrow County each lost a case in the Sunday Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health.
The Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Sunday produced positive news for the Northeast Health District with no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 and a reduced number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the region.
For the second time, the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report either reassigned or disallowed two COVID-19 confirmed positive cases, one in Oconee County and one in Barrow County, with the 1 p.m. report on Sunday.
The Department of Public Health had reduced its count of cases in the Northeast Health District once before, on April 26, also a Sunday, that time by three cases.
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The seven-day rolling average of added cases in the region, based on the Daily Status Report, declined from 16.3 on Saturday to 13.7 on Sunday
The Daily Status report had reported three deaths on Saturday, of a 90-plus-year-old man in Barrow County with underlying conditions, a 78-year-old female in Green County without known underlying conditions, and of a 83-year-old female in Walton County with underlying conditions.
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The total number of deaths in the region attributed to the disease in the Daily Status Report stands at 45.
The Department of Community Health did not issue a Long-Term Care Facility Report either on Saturday or Sunday.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency Situation Report for late Saturday listed 19 Critical Care Beds available in regional hospitals, up from16 on Saturday.
For more details of the Daily Status Report for Sunday, both for the region and for the state, and for charts summarizing those data, please go to Oconee County Observations.