Oconee And Clarke List COVID Deaths In State Health Reports

Oconee and Clarke counties each added a death attributed to COVID-19 with the release of the Daily Status Report on Friday, two of four deaths from the disease in the Northeast Health District included in the Department of Public Health report.

The Department of Community Health also listed four deaths on Friday in the Northeast Health District in its Long-Term Care Facility Report, including one in Oconee County.

The Oconee County death listed in the Department of Public Health Daily Status report was of a 76-year-old female without a known chronic condition. She is the 31st death in the county attributed to the disease.

The Clarke County death in the Daily Status Report, the second listed in as many days, was of an 81-year old male with a chronic condition. He was the 50th death in the county attributed to COVID-19.

The total number of deaths attributed to the novel corona virus in the Northeast Health District in the Daily Status Report now stands at 308, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths from the disease was 1.9 on Friday, down from 2.0 on Thursday. The District had five deaths on Friday of last week.

The Oconee County death in the Department of Community Health was at Magnolia Estates of Oconee, 1641 Virgil Langford Road, south of SR 316, and is the second death reported at the personal care home.

The Department of Public Health Daily Status Report listed 69 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Friday Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average dropped to 79.0 from 90.1 on Thursday. It was the fifth day in a row that the seven-day rolling average has dropped.

Every county in the District added at least one case with the exception of Oconee County. The Daily Status Report listed two fewer cumulative cases in the county on Friday than the day before.

Clarke County added 22 cases, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases for both Oconee and Clarke counties declined on Friday.

Oconee County Schools on Friday reported that, as of the end of the day, the system’s 11 schools had six Active COVID-19 Cases and 19 Active Quarantines Due to Close Contact.

Both numbers are up from a week ago, when the system reported five Active COVID-19 Cases and seven Active Quarantines Due to Close Contact.

The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Friday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (58) increased by one from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (634) increased by one from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (29) was unchanged from the day before.

For more local reporting, for state data, and for charts summarizing local and state data, please click through to Oconee County Observations.