Health & Fitness
Oconee Schools Report Big Jump In Active COVID-19 Cases
The Northeast Health District added 488 COVID-19 Friday's state reports, including a death in Clarke County.
The Northeast Health District added 488 new cases of COVID-19–383 of them the result of molecular tests and 105 identified via antigen tests–and two deaths from the disease with the release of Friday’s Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
Both of the dead were residents of Walton County. One was a 66-year-old female without a known chronic condition and the other was an 87-year-old male, also without a known chronic condition.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Daily Status Report fell to 1.3 on Friday from 1.7 on Thursday. The District had added five deaths on Friday a week ago.
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The Department of Community Affairs, in its Friday Long-Term Care Facility Report, also listed a death–at The Oaks–Athens Skilled Nursing in Clarke County. The Department of Community Health does not list characteristics of the deceased.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases, based on a combination of the outcomes of molecular and antigen testing, increased to 379.4 on Friday from 363.6 on Thursday. The rolling average has been increasing steadily since Dec. 12 and is at a new high.
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Oconee County added 46 cases based on a combination of the test outcomes, and Clarke County added 93. The seven-day rolling average for Oconee County climbed to 27.0 on Friday from 23.7 on Thursday, and the Clarke County rolling average was 69.4, up just slightly from 69.3 on Thursday.
The 46 cases added in Oconee ties the record number of cases added on Tuesday, and the seven-day rolling average of 27.0 added cases per day is a new record high.
Oconee County Schools, in its final Weekly COVID-19 Status Report for the year, listed 28 Active COVID-19 cases and 167 Active Quarantines Due To Close Contact. This is the highest number of both Active Cases and Active Quarantines the system has reported the entire year.
Last week, the Weekly COVID-19 Status Report listed 15 Active Cases and 149 Active Quarantines, in both cases record numbers to that point.
This is only a summary of the local reporting on COVID-19. For more detail and for state comparisons, please click through to Oconee County Observations.