Health & Fitness
Oconee County Adds Second Nursing Home COVID-19 Death
The Northeast Health District added 20 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday.
Each of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District of the Georgia Department of Public Health except Oconee County added at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 with the Daily Status Report issued just before noon on Saturday, but Oconee County added a second death at a nursing home.
The Oconee death at the High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in North High Shoals does not appear in Georgia Department of Public Health Daily Status Report, which does add two new deaths in the Northeast Health District in the 24-hour-period ending at 11:25 a.m. on Saturday.
Those deaths are for a 91-year-old male in Oglethorpe County with known chronic conditions and for a 72-year-old female in Walton County, also with known chronic conditions.
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The new Oconee County death is reported in the late Friday Long-Term Care Facility COVID-19 Report, also issued by the Georgia Department of Public Health but based on the self-reporting of data from nursing homes and personal care homes in the state.
The 10-county Northeast Health District added 20 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, up from the 11 added on Friday. Despite the uptick on Saturday, the seven-day average of added cases dropped for the third day in a row, from 21.3 cases to 18.6 cases.
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Across the state, the number of cases increased by 775 on Saturday but the seven-day-rolling average also declined for the third day in a row, from 655.4 cases per day on Friday to 623.4 cases per day on Saturday.
The Department of Public Health added 44 new deaths, bringing the total to an even 1,400, with the 11:25 a.m. Saturday Daily Status Report.
The seven-day-average of newly recorded deaths increased from 30.4 on Friday to 33.3 on Saturday.
Of those 44 new deaths, the Department of Public Health reported that 23 were for those who died in the last 14 days, while on Friday, 18 of the 21 cases added were for deaths in the last 14 days.
For more on the story, with charts summarizing the data, please go to Oconee County Observations.