Seven-Day Rolling Average Of New COVID-19 Cases Locally Unchanged

The 10-county Northeast Health District added 25 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the same number added a week ago, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases per day remained unchanged at 20.6.

Only two counties–Oconee and Greene–did not add a new case, and the total number of confirmed cases in the District over the three-month run of the pandemic is 1,840.

The Department of Public Health did not add any new deaths with release of the 2:50 p.m. Daily Status Report, and the total number of deaths is 94.

The Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report on Tuesday also did not report any new COVID-19 deaths in the 23 long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District with disease among the residents and/or staff.

The Department of Community Health did report two additional cases of COVID Positive Staff–at a facility in Madison County.

The number of active COVID-19 Positive Residents dropped by two to 188 among the 1,512 residents of the 23 facilities.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency Tuesday Situation Report listed 22 Critical Care Beds available in area hospitals, down from 26 in the report on Monday.

For more on the story, with data for the whole state and charts summarizing local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.