Oconee County Records 49th COVID-19 Death; NE District Adds 14

Below is a summary of COVID-19 data on Wednesday for Oconee and Clarke counties and for the entire 10-county Northeast Health District.

• Northeast Health District Added 14 confirmed COVID-19 Deaths and 325 new cases of the disease.
• The deaths were spread across seven of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District.
• Oconee County recorded its 49th confirmed death from COVID-19.
• The seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped just slightly.
• The seven-day rolling average of added cases continued to decrease and is now on a five-day decline.
• The University of Georgia reported a slight increase is the number of positive tests for COVID-19 based on testing locally.
• Across the state, an additional 46,518 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, and the total number of administered doses is now more than 1 million.

For details and for state comparisons, please click through to Oconee County Observations.