The Northeast Health District added 123 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, pushing up the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 86.9, the highest that figure has been since Sept. 24. The seven-day rolling average of added cases had been 85.6 on Thursday.
The 10-county Northeast Health District added one additional death, of a 79-year-old male in Greene County without a chronic condition. The death was the 25th in Greene County and the 282nd in the District as a whole.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped from 2.0 on Thursday to 1.7 on Friday.
Every county in the Northeast Health District added at least two cases. Oconee County added four and Clarke County added 40. The seven-day rolling averages of added cases increased slightly in both counties on Friday over Thursday.
Oconee County Schools, in its Weekly COVID-19 Status Report, listed six Active COVID-19 Cases in the system’s 11 schools, up from four a week earlier, and 31 Active Quarantines Due To Close Contact, down from 56 a week earlier.
Oconee County Schools does not provide any data on the schools with the cases and quarantines or whether the cases involved students, faculty or staff. Forwarded email messages from parents during the past week indicate one of the cases was at High Shoals Elementary School and another was at Malcom Bridge Middle School.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Friday the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (59) was an increase from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (63) decreased from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (30) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Public Health reported no new cases of COVID-19 in the long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District.
State Data
Across the state, the Department of Public Health reported 1,701 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, and the seven-day rolling average increased just slightly to 1,302.4 from 1,301.6 on Thursday.
The state reported the addition of 24,489 molecular tests, and the positive rate for these new tests was 6.2 percent. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic increased to 5.7 percent on Friday from 5.5 percent on Thursday.
The Daily Status Report listed 65 new COVID-19 deaths across the state on Friday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 31.0 from 29.7 on Thursday.
Of those 65 deaths, 34 were in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average based on date of occurrence also increased on Friday.
The Department of Public Health eliminated one death on Friday from its earlier report and dated one of the added deaths as occurring as far back as July 12.
Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Friday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,318) decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,320) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (877) increased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health reported that COVID-19 was present among residents and/or staff at 644 facilities across the state, the same as on Thursday.
Charts
All of the charts below are based on data from the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report and have been updated to include data from the release of that report at 2:50 p.m. on Friday.
Charts 1 and 2 include data from the 10-county Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health, which includes Oconee and Clarke counties.
Chart 3 shows data for Oconee and Clarke counties and, in the insert, data from Oconee County Schools.
Charts 4 and 5 show data for the entire state of Georgia.
Click on any of the charts to enlarge it.
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