Rolling Averages Of COVID Cases, Death Increase In NE District

The seven-day rolling averages of COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to increase in the Northeast Health District with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Sunday.

Sunday traditionally is a day of light reporting, and the 10-county District added only 108 cases, but that figure was up from the 102 reported on Sunday a week ago, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 227.3 from 226.4 on Saturday.

The Sunday case average is a new record for the District.

Only Greene and Oglethorpe counties did not add cases. Oconee County added nine new COVID-19 cases, and Clarke County added 63.

The Northeast Health District recorded one new death attributed to COVID-19 on Sunday, of a 75-year-old female in Greene County without a chronic condition.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 3.1 from 3.0 on Saturday. The average of 3.1 deaths per day is a new record for the Northeast Health District, which has recorded at least one death from the virus in each of the last six days.

The Department of Public Health on Saturday reported 71 molecular tests in Oconee County, and the seven-day rolling average of positive tests increased to 10.2 on Sunday from 9.5 on Saturday. The average has increased each of the last five days.

In Clarke County, the Daily Status Report listed 528 new molecular tests on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of positive tests increased to 19.2 on Sunday from 17.7 on Saturday. The average has increased each of the last eight days.

The Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency on Sunday reported that area hospitals had 83 COVID-19 patients, the same as on Saturday, 64 ICU Beds In Use, up from 55 on Saturday, and 34 ventilators in use, up from 30 on Saturday.

For more local reporting and for state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.