Oconee County Again Adds No New COVID-19 Cases; Region Adds 27

Oconee County had its third straight day on Thursday without a new confirmed case of COVID-19 added in the noon Daily Status Report of the Georgia Department of Public Health. The county has 53 confirmed cases.

Clarke County added three cases, and the 10-county Northeast Health District as a whole added 27 cases, up from 24 added in the noon Daily Status Report on Wednesday.

The increase for the Northeast Health District of 27 cases was considerably lower than the 37 cases added a week ago on April 16, and the seven-day rolling average for added cases for the Northeast Region dropped from 22.0 new cases per day to 20.6.

The situation in the Northeast Region differs noticeably from the situation in the state.

Georgia added 772 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 on Thursday, which is 90 more than were added on the Thursday report for April 16. The seven-day rolling average for the state jumped from 821.9 cases per day to 834.7.

The ratio of confirmed cases to population has been roughly twice as high in the state as it is in the 10-Northeast Health District. On Thursday, the state had 202.6 confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population, and the Northeast Health District had 107.6 cases per 100,000.

The Northeast Health District recorded no new cases of COVID-19 deaths with the noon Daily Status Report on Thursday, while the state added 36.

The state had added 35 COVID-19 deaths with the noon Daily Status Report on April 16, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths went up from 40.6 cases per day to 40.7 cases per day Thursday.

For charts plotting the regional and state data released with the noon Daily Status Reports, please go to Oconee County Observations.