The Department of Public Health on Saturday reported 245 new cases of COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District based on molecular tests and an additional 43 based on antigen tests. The Report listed no new deaths from the disease in the District.
The combined seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped from 306.4 on Friday to 295.7 on Saturday.
Oconee County added 10 cases based on molecular tests and one based on antigen tests, while Clarke County added 57 cases based on molecular tests and 10 cases based on antigen tests.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases based on both tests dropped from 17.7 in Oconee County on Friday to 15.6 on Saturday and from 66.0 in Clarke County on Friday to 61.7 on Saturday.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the 10-county Northeast Health District remained unchanged on Saturday at 1.7.
The Daily Status Report did list one "probable death" from the disease in Jackson County.
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 (144) remained the same as the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (68) remained the same as the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (30) remained the same as the day before.
State Data
Across the state, the Daily Status Report listed 4,868 new cases of COVID-19 based on molecular tests and 1,797 based on antigen tests.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases based on molecular tests increased to 4,277.7 on Saturday from 4,117.9 on Friday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases based on the antigen tests increased to 1,444.0 on Saturday from 1,389.9 on Friday.
The state added 30 new deaths attributed to COVID-19 on Saturday, and the seven day rolling average of added deaths from the disease dropped to 34.6 on Saturday from 37.1 on Friday.
Eighteen of those deaths were in the last 14 days. The state also removed one death previously listed as due to the disease.
The state added 15 “probable deaths” in the listing in the Daily Status Report.
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 (2,824) decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,493) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (867) increased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health does not produce its Long-Term Care Facility Report on the weekend.
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 only.
Charts 4 and 5 show data for the entire state of Georgia.
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