Slights Drops Shown In Seven-Day Averages Of COVID Cases, Deaths

The 10-county Northeast Health District added 19 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death attributed to the disease in the Wednesday Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health.

The figures resulted in slight drops in the seven-day averages of added cases (from 27.0 from 27.3) and deaths (from 2.0 to 1.6).

Oconee County was one of four counties in the 10-county Northeast Health District that did not add a new COVID-19 case on Wednesday.

The single death was of an 87-year-old female in Walton County without known chronic conditions.

The Northeast Health District had good news in the Wednesday Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report.

That report added no new cases of COVID-19 among residents of the 22 long-term care homes in the District with some contamination from the disease, no new deaths, and no new cases of staff infection.

The number of residents of those 22 facilities currently with the disease dropped from 217 on Tuesday to 211 with the 2 p.m. Wednesday report.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported on Wednesday that the number of Critical Care Beds available at area hospitals had dropped by two each of the last two days but remained at 22, well above the low point of 10 on June 4.

For data for the state of Georgia and charts summarizing local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.