Oconee, Clarke Add 3 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases; State Tests Drop

Oconee and Clarke counties each added three confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the 24-hour-period ending at noon on Saturday, according to the Georgia Department of Health Daily Status Report.

The 10-county Northeast Health District of the Department of Health that includes Oconee and Clarke counties added 13 confirmed cases in the 24-hour-period, and Georgia as a whole added 329 cases.

The number of deaths in the 10-county Northeast District remained the same at 12, while the state of Georgia added 17 deaths. The cumulative number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 increased in the state by 81.

Across the state, the number of new confirmed cases, of deaths, and of new hospitalizations has decreased in each of the last three days over the day before.

But so has the number of new tests recorded by the Georgia Department of Health.

The Department of Health reported an increase of 1,029 tests in the 24-hour-period ending at noon on Saturday, compared with 2,308 new tests in the 24-hour-period ending at noon on Friday.

When tests declined heading into this week, so did the number of confirmed cases, deaths and hospitalizations

The numbers of cases, deaths and hospitalizations increased dramatically on Tuesday when the number of recorded tests increased.

For more on the story, with three charts summarizing the trends in the data, please go to Oconee County Observations.