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Region Adds 110 COVID-19 Cases And Five COVID-19 Deaths
One of those deaths was in Oconee County, of female 90 or more years old with a chronic condition.
The Northeast Health District recorded 110 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and five new deaths attributed to the disease on Saturday, pushing up the seven-day rolling average of both cases and deaths for the District.
One of the deaths was in Oconee County and was the second death in two days in the county included in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report. Oconee County now has 13 deaths from the disease, and Clarke County has 15.
Deaths also were added on Saturday in Barrow County (current total of 27), Greene County (total of 10), Jackson County (total of 12), and Walton County (total of 29).
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Elbert and Morgan counties still have not recorded a death from the disease, and Madison has four and Oglethorpe has seven.
The Oconee County death was of a female aged 90 or more without a chronic condition.
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The Barrow County death was of an 87-year-old male with a chronic condition. The Greene County death was of an 85-year-old male without a known chronic condition. The Jackson County death was of a female with a chronic condition labeled as 90 plus in age. And the Walton County death was of an 85-year-old male without a known chronic condition.
The Department of Community Health has reported four deaths at a Jackson County nursing home since June 30 that had not appeared in the Department of Public Health records. The death reported by the Department of Public Health on Saturday might reduce that number of unreported deaths to three.
The five deaths in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Saturday push the seven-day rolling average of deaths in the Northeast Health District to 1.3 from 0.6 on Friday.
The 110 confirmed COVID-19 cases added on Saturday increase the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 97.7, the highest average ever recorded. The average had been 93.9 on Friday.
Oconee County added three cases on Saturday, and Clarke County added 28.
The Department of Community Health did not release a report on Saturday, but the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, in its Situation Report COVID-19 for Saturday, reported six Critical Care Beds available at area hospitals, down from 10 on Friday.
For data for the entire state and charts summarizing the regional and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.