Oconee, Clarke, Barrow, Walton And Jackson Add New COVID-19 Cases

Oconee, Clarke, Barrow, Walton and Jackson counties all added new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the 24-hour period that ended at noon on Sunday, and Walton County counted its first death attributable to the disease.

The total number of cases in Oconee County in the noon Daily Status Report from the Georgia Department of Health was 24. It was 62 in Clarke County and 25 in Barrow County.

Across the 10-county Northeast Health District of the Department of Health that includes Oconee and Clarke counties, the number of cases at noon on Sunday was 168, up from 156 at noon on Saturday.

Georgia added 487 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the 24-hour period ended at noon on Sunday, 44 hospitalizations due to the disease, and 10 deaths.

The number of confirmed cases in the state, according to the noon Daily Status Report, was 6,647, the number of hospitalizations was 1,283, and the number of deaths was 211.

The noon status report now shows at least one case of COVID-19 in all but 10 of the state’s 159 counties.

The ratio of number of COVID-19 cases per person in Georgia now is .000626, or 6.26 per 10,000 people, up from 2.23 per 10,000 people a week ago.

In Oconee County, it is 5.96 per 10,000 people, up from 2.48 per 10,000 people a week ago.

For more on the story, and four charts showing trends in the data, please go to Oconee County Observations.