The Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health listed 69 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Northeast Health District on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased for the fifth day in a row to 104.1 cases per day.
Sundays generally are a light reporting day, and Morgan and Greene counties did not add any cases, but each of the remaining eight counties in the Northeast Health District added at least one case.
Oconee County added two cases, and Clarke County added 13 cases. For both counties, the seven-day rolling average of added cases fell just slightly on Sunday.
The Department of Public Health removed nine cases of COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District identified through antigen tests, as opposed to molecular tests used for the confirmed cases, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases based on antigen or rapid tests dropped to 39.3 from 46.9 on Saturday.
Neither Oconee nor Clarke counties added any new cases based on the antigen tests, so the number of positive cases based on that tests stood at 312 in Oconee County and 1,164 in Clarke County.
The number of cases based on the molecular tests was 943 in Oconee County and 6,261 in Clarke County.
The Daily Status Report did not list any new deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in Sunday’s Daily Status Report
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (80) increased by five from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (64) decreased by three from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (26) increased by one from the day before.
State Data
Across the state on Sunday, the Daily Status Report listed 1,962 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 based on the molecular test. The seven-day rolling average of added cases based on this test increased to 2,034.4 on Sunday.
The rolling average of added confirmed cases has not been above 2,000 since Sept. 6 until Sunday.
The Department of Public Health added 206 cases based on positive antigen or rapid tests with the release of the Daily Status Report on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases based on this test dropped just slightly to 789.7 on Sunday from 790.7 on Saturday.
The Department of Public Health eliminated 74 cases it had previously reported, including the nine in the Northeast Health District.
The Department of Public Health reports that people with a positive test often get retested and may test positive multiple times. These repeat positive tests are not reported as new cases. The Department on a daily basis eliminates cases and even deaths previously recorded from its records.
In fact, on Sunday, the Department of Public Health reported only one new death from COVID-19, but it also eliminated one death previously recorded as occurring on Nov. 13.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths remained unchanged at 40.7, since the Department of Public Health had recorded only one new death on Sunday of last week as well.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by date of occurrence also was unchanged on Sunday from Saturday.
The Department of Public Health listed one probable death on Sunday, and the seven-day average of added probable deaths increased to 5.9 from 5.7 on Saturday.
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 (1,634) decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,370) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (767) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health does not release its 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 in the main chart. The insert shows data for the entire Northeast Health District.
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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