Oconee And Clarke Do Not Add COVID Cases; Region Adds 18

Neither Oconee County nor Clarke County added any new confirmed COVID-19 cases with the Daily Status Report issued before noon on Sunday, but Barrow County added 10 cases and the Northeast Health District as a whole added 18 cases.

Greene County added a death attributed to the disease with the passing of a 47-year-old male with known chronic conditions, bringing to 30 the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the 10-county district.

The seven-day rolling average of added cases for the Northeast Health District rose to 27.3 from 24.3 a day earlier.

Across the state, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased by 469, down from 999 a day earlier, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases fell from 776.9 to 743.0.

Though the Department of Public Health did not report any new tests added in the Saturday noon Daily Status Report, it reported adding 6,433 tests with the Sunday report. The number of tests added each day has been quite irregular, with the average number across the last seven days being 7,456.6.

The Department of Public Health reported six additional deaths from COVID-19 with the Sunday Daily Status Report, down from 24 on Saturday, and resulting in a seven-day rolling average of added deaths of 37.9, down from 38.1 a day earlier.

The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state has reached 1,177.

The Department of Public Health has released the form it uses for recording COVID-19 cases in the state, showing that County is recorded separate from Zip Code.

For more on this story, with charts showing the Sunday data, please go to Oconee County Observations.