Health & Fitness
Rolling Averages Of COVID Cases And Deaths Stable In NE District
The Department of Public Health reported 82 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday. Oconee County Schools reported a successful opening.
The Northeast Health District added 82 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday with the release of the Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health, resulting in a seven-day rolling average of added cases basically unchanged from Sunday.
The 10-county District did not add any deaths, as had been the case a week ago, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths remained unchanged at 1.7.
Every county in the District added at least two COVID-19 cases on Monday, with Oconee County adding four cases and Clarke County adding 34. The seven-day rolling average was 150.6, compared with 151.0 on Sunday.
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The Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report for Monday included 11 new cases of COVID-19 among residents of area long-term care facilities.
Nine of those new cases were at University Nursing and Rehab Center and the other two were at Pruitt Health Grandview, two nursing homes in Athens-Clarke County.
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The Department of Community Health report also added six COVID-19 staff cases among the 33 long-term care facilities in the District, two of them at University Nursing and Rehab Center and four at a nursing home in Greene County.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported late on Monday that area hospitals had 10 Critical Care Beds available, up from seven on Saturday and Sunday. The hospitals file those data for a noon deadline on the day of the report.
Anisa Sullivan Jimenez, director of Communications for Oconee County Schools, reported on Monday morning that no COVID-19 cases had been identified after the first three days of school last week and no new cases of the disease had been reported to the Georgia High School Association after athletic practices started in June.
An analysis of pictures Jimenez took of students, administrators, faculty and staff on the first two days of school last week and posted to Facebook shows a high level of compliance with the request that all wear masks at school.
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