State Adds Nearly 3,500 New COVID-19 Cases, 43 In NE District

Georgia recorded 3,472 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Thursday and is in completely new territory in terms of spread of the disease.

The seven-day rolling average of added cases is 2,373.4, up more than 250 cases from the record set on Wednesday.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency on Thursday reported 1,649 Confirmed COVID-19 Hospitalizations, up from 1,570 the day before and above the May 1 benchmark of 1,500 cases, when the Agency first started reporting hospitalization data.

Confirmed COVID-19 Hospitalizations had declined consistently to 783 on June 7 but have moved up since.

In the 10-county Northeast Health District, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reported on Thursday was 43, and the seven-day rolling average dropped to 59.6 from 61.1 the day earlier.

The Department of Public Health removed nine cases from its tally for Barrow County on Thursday, without explanation, reducing the total number of cases in the county to 523 from 532 the day earlier.

If that is a recording error, the seven-day rolling average largely would have been unchanged.

For the state, 22 new deaths were recorded in the Daily Status Report on Thursday, and none of those were at the local level, resulting in declines in the seven-day rolling averages at both the state and local level.

For more details on state reports on COVID-19 from Thursday, please go to Oconee County Observations.