Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Oconee County Adds Third COVID-19 Death In Two Days As Northeast Health District Adds 435 COVID-19 Cases

***Area Hospitals Report Record Number of COVID-19 Patients***

Oconee County recorded its third death attributed to COVID-19 in two days with the release on Tuesday of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

The county also recorded 57 new cases of the disease, a new record.

The Oconee County death was the sole death listed in the the Daily Status Report for the 10-county Northeast Health District on Tuesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in that Report held steady at 2.0.