The Northeast Health District added two deaths from COVID-19 with the release of the Department of Public Health and the Department of Community Health reports on Monday and 36 new confirmed cases of the disease
The death listed in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report was of a 56-year-old male in Jackson County with a chronic condition. It was 35th death in Jackson County and the 262nd death in the Northeast Health District listed in that report.
The Department of Community Health, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Monday, listed one new death from COVID-19–at Heardmont Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in Elbert County--the fifth death from the disease at that facility and the 120th death in the Northeast Health District listed in the Department of Community Health report.
The Department of Public Health distributes the Department of Community Health’s Long-Term Care Facility Report but does not list deaths from that report in the Daily Status Report, which is the official count of deaths from the virus in the state.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths for the Northeast Health District, based on the Daily Status Report, dropped to 1.3 on Monday from 1.4 on Sunday.
The 36 new COVID-19 cases listed in the Monday Daily Status Report were spread throughout the 10-county Northeast Health District, with Oconee County reporting a single case and Clarke County reporting four. Only Elbert County did not have a new case.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District dropped to 79.7 on Monday from 80.7 on Sunday.
The Department of Public Health listed only 27 new molecular tests for which verdicts were known for Oconee County on Monday, and none of them was listed as positive. The seven-day rolling average of positivity dropped to 6.0 on Monday from 7.8 on Sunday.
In Clarke County, according to the Daily Status Report, 236 new molecular tests with verdicts were reported on Monday, and 3.8 percent of them were positive. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic dropped from 3.8 on Sunday to 3.5 on Monday.
The Department of Community Health listed one new resident case of COVID-19 at The Glen At Lake Oconee personal care home in Greene County.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that area hospitals had 63 COVID-19 patients, down from 64 on Sunday, 65 ICU beds in use out of a capacity of 70, up from 64 on Sunday, and 33 adult ventilators in use, up from 29 on Sunday.
State Data
Across the state, the Department of Public Health recorded 30 new deaths attributed to COVID-19, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 34.0 from 31.9 on Sunday.
Of those 30 deaths, 12 occurred in the last 14 days. One was recorded as occurring as far back as July 18.
The Daily Status Report listed 806 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 1,249.0 on Monday from 1,222.3 on Sunday.
The state reported adding only 14,139 new molecular tests, but that was more than was added on Monday a week ago, and the seven-day rolling average of added tests increased to 19,179.9 on Monday from 18,907.0 on Sunday.
Of the added tests for which verdicts were known, 6.1 percent were positive. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic was 7.0 on Monday, the same as on Sunday.
Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported 1,280 COVID-19 patients on Monday, up from 1,273 on Sunday, 2,211 ICU beds in use, down from 2,259 on Sunday, and 866 adult ventilators in use, up from 862 on Sunday.
The Department of Community Health listed 645 long-term care facilities with COVID-19 among its residents and/or staff on Monday, the same number as on Friday. The Department of Community Health does not issue its 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 Monday.
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 presents data for Oconee and Clarke counties only.
Charts 4 and 5 show data for the entire state of Georgia.
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