The Northeast Health District added 119 confirmed COVID-19 cases with the Saturday release of the Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health and three deaths attributed to the disease.
Most of the cases–105–were the result of molecular tests, with the remaining 14 the result of antigen tests.
Every county in the 10-county Northeast Health District except Oglethorpe added at least one case based on the molecular tests, with Oconee County adding four and Clarke county adding 33.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases based on the molecular tests dropped to 90.4 on Saturday from 94.1 on Friday, and the seven-day rolling average in Oconee County increased slightly while it decreased slightly in Clarke County.
Clarke County added 15 antigen positive tests on Saturday, while Oconee added none. The Department of Public Health began reporting antigen test results only on Tuesday.
The deaths were of a 78-year-old female in Barrow County without a chronic condition, a 76-year-old male in Elbert County without a chronic condition, and an 81-year-old female in Jackson County with a chronic condition.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District increased to 1.7 on Saturday from 1.4 on Friday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Saturday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (77) increased by four from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (58) decreased by two from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (34) increased by eight from the day before.
Saturday was the seventh day in a row that the number of COVID-19 patients had increased at area hospitals. The hospitals have not had as many as 77 COVID-19 patients since Sept. 11, when they had 91.
State Data
Across the state, the Daily Status Report on Saturday added 1,778 confirmed cases based on molecular tests, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases decreased to 1,641.9 from 1,758.6 on Friday.
In addition, the Daily Status Report added 528 cases confirmed via antigen tests. It isn’t possible to compute a seven-day rolling average of added cases from this test because the state only began releasing these data on Tuesday.
The Department of Public Health reported 38 deaths from the disease based on the molecular test, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 32.3 on Saturday from 30.3 on Friday.
Twenty-four of those deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths based on date of occurrence increased on Saturday, as it has for each of the last five days.
The Department of Public Health eliminated one death previously recorded. It also recorded two new probable deaths.
Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Saturday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,495) decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,366) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (786) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health does not release 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 Saturday.
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 and for Region E of GEMA in the insert. Region E consists of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District plus Franklin and Hart 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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