For the second day in a row, the Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health added three deaths attributed to COVID-19, one of them in Oconee County, bringing to 16 the total number of deaths in Oconee County attributed to the disease.
The 10-county Northeast Health District has added 11 deaths in the last week, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths on Saturday was 1.6, the same as the day before. The District had added three deaths last Saturday as well.