Oconee Adds 14 New COVID-19 Cases And Has Three Deaths

Oconee County added 14 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report at 1 p.m. on Friday, the largest single-day increase ever reported for the county.

The Department of Public Health’s Daily Status Report also added two additional deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Oconee County.

Three different state agencies are now reporting data on COVID-19, and the Department of Community Health earlier had reported two COVID-19 deaths at High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in the west of Oconee County.

Late on Thursday, the Department of Community Health, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report, listed a third death at the New High Shoals nursing home.

Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry, who has been relaying Georgia Emergency Management Agency data on his Facebook page, reported on Friday that his office had been informed of an additional address in the county with 14 Active Cases of COVID-19.

The Department of Community Health, in its Thursday Reported, listed 16 COVID Positive Residents at the New High Shoals nursing home and three COVID Positive Staff.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency also reported in its May 14 reports that number of available hospital Critical Care Beds in the region had dropped from 19 on May 11 to 10 on May 14.

Based on the Department of Public Health Daily Status report, the 10-county region added 13 confirmed COVID-19 cases (Walton and other counties lost cases, and some had slight increases), and the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the 10-county Northeast Health District on Friday increased to 18.6 cases per day.

It had been 15.1 cases per day on May 12.

For more on the story, with charts showing data for the region and for the state of Georgia, please go to Oconee County Observations.