The Northeast Health District added 77 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Sunday, pushing up the seven-day rolling average of added cases for the eighth day in a row. The rolling average is the highest it has been since Sept. 21.
Every county except Morgan and Greene in the 10-county Northeast Health District added cases on Sunday, with Oconee County adding seven cases and Clarke County adding 21. The seven-day rolling average for both Oconee and Clarke counties increased slightly on Sunday over Saturday.
Across all 10 counties, the seven-day rolling average of added cases was 106.0, up from 104.4 on Saturday.
The Northeast Health District added no new deaths attributed to COVID-19 on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped from 1.7 on Saturday to 1.4 on Sunday.
The increased number of COVID-19 cases is reflected in the hospital data reported on Sunday by the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA).
GHA and GEMA reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (60) was an increase of 10 from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (62) was an increase of two from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (22) decreased by two from the day before.
Area hospitals have a capacity of 70 ICU units, and the 62 occupied is down from six days earlier.
Oconee County’s seven-day rolling average of positivity of molecular tests was 6.8 percent on Friday, when 14 tests for that day were reported. For Clarke County, that figure was 6.0 percent. On Friday, 47 tests performed that day were recorded in Clarke County.
Oconee County’s positivity rate has been decreasing in the last four days, while Clarke’s has been increasing.
State Data
Across the state, the Daily Status Report added 1,320 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 1,509.4 from 1,492.1 on Saturday.
The state added only a single death on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped from 29.3 on Saturday to 25.0 on Sunday.
The added death occurred on Oct. 23, according to the data in the Daily Status Report.
The state added 18,922 new tests on Sunday, and the positivity rate for those added tests was 7.6 percent. The seven-day rolling average of the positivity statistic was 7.1, up from 6.9 on Saturday.
The seven-day rolling average for the positivity statistic for Friday based on the date the test was conducted was 7.0. That can be compared to the 6.8 percent for Oconee County and 6.0 percent for Clarke County reported above.
Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,336) increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,337) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (862) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health does not issue a Long-Term Care Facility Report on the weekends.
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 Sunday.
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.
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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