The Department of Public Health reported one new COVID-19 death in the 10-county Northeast Health District on Tuesday and 110 new confirmed cases of the disease.
The new death was of a 65-year-old male in Morgan County without a chronic condition. It is only the third death from COVID-19 in the county since the pandemic began.
Morgan County has the lowest ratio of deaths per population of the District, just below Elbert County, which also has three deaths from the virus.