Health & Fitness
Three New COVID-19 Deaths In Area Push Up Rolling Average
The Department of Community Health reports that active cases at area long-term care homes continues to decline.
Three COVID-19 deaths listed in Friday’s Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health pushed up the seven-day rolling average of deaths in the 10-county Northeast Health District, consistent with the statewide trend of increasing deaths from the disease.
The Northeast Health District added 24 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, but that was much lower than the 59 new cased added a week ago, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped from 27.0 per day on Thursday to 22.0 per day on Friday.
Across the state as a whole, however, the number of cases continued to increase with the issuance of Friday’s Daily Status Report.
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Oconee County actually lost a recorded case on Friday, and its cumulative number of cases is 128, but Clarke County added six cases.
Two of the three deaths in the Northeast Health District were in Barrow County (a 65-year-old male with a chronic condition and a 90 plus-year-old female without a known chronic condition) and the third was in Greene County (a 71-year-old male with no chronic condition).
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The Department of Community Health, in its Friday Long-Term Care Facility Report, listed no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 for the Northeast Health District, and no new cases among staff.
The Department of Community Health did add one facility to its report of those with COVID-19 infections–the Social Circle Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Walton County–and that facility had a single COVID-19 positive case among its 58 residents.
The Long-Term Care Facility Report has not listed any new deaths at area nursing and personal care homes since June 8, and only three new cases among residents, so the 11 deaths and 136 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Daily Status Report since June 8 would seem to be almost entirely in the community at large.
The number of current or active cases at the area long-term care facilities continued to decline with the Friday report.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency Situation Report was not issued as of late evening on Friday.
For more on the story, with charts showing data for the region and the state, please go to Oconee County Observations.