Oconee, Clarke Again Add COVID Deaths; NE District Adds 147 Cases

For the third day in a row, both Oconee and Clarke counties recorded a death attributed to COVID-19 with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Saturday.

The Oconee County death was of a 60-year old male with a chronic condition, while the Clarke County death was of a 74-year-old female without a chronic condition.

Jackson County also recorded a death of a 77-year-old female with a chronic condition, but the Department of Public Health removed from its file a death in Walton County, so the cumulative number of deaths in the Northeast Health District increased by two.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District was 2.6 on Saturday, down from 2.7 on Friday. The District added three deaths on Saturday a week ago.

The District has added one or more deaths on each of the last nine days and 18 in the last week.

Oconee County now has 20 deaths attributed to COVID-19, Clarke County has 24, and the 10-county Northeast Health District as a whole has 175.

The Department of Public Health reported 147 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased from 123.6 on Friday to 124.7 on Saturday.

Each county in the 10-county district added two or more cases, and Oconee County added 16 and Clarke County added 57. Oconee County has added 78 cases in the last 14 days, and Clarke County has added 446.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported eight Critical Care Beds available in area hospitals on Saturday, up from four on Friday, 129 COVID-19 Patients, down from 135 on Friday, and 27 ventilators in use, the same as on Friday.

For more on this story, with charts, please go to Oconee County Observations.