Oconee County Added Third COVID-19 Death On Monday

Oconee Country added one COVID-19 confirmed case and one death attributed to the disease in the Monday Daily Status Report from the Georgia Department of Public Health.

The addition of the death of a 73-year-old male without chronic health conditions in Oconee County brings to three the number of deaths in the county attributed to COVID-19 and to 46 the number in Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health.

The Northeast Health District as a whole added 16 cases with the 1 p.m. Daily Status Report on Monday, increasing the seven-day rolling average of cases in the District from 13.7 to 15.9.

Oconee County added the single case, Clarke County added four cases, and Barrow County added three.

Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry reported on Sunday that the Georgia Emergency Management Agency informed his office that no new Active Cases had been added to Oconee County’s list on Saturday or Sunday, which stands at 10.

An Active Cases actually is an address, rather than a single case, and Berry reported on Friday that one of the addresses had 14 cases of COVID-19.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency in it Situation Report on Sunday stated that the number of available Critical Care Hospital beds in the region dropped from 19 on Saturday to 15 on Sunday.

For more on the story, with charts summarizing the regional and state date, please go to Oconee County Observations.