The Northeast Health District added nine confirmed COVID-19 deaths with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 7.6 deaths per day.
The District added only 56 new cases of COVID-19, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 128.6 cases per day.
The confirmed deaths were spread across six of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District.
Clarke County reported the death of a 66-year-old male without a chronic condition. That brings to 107 the number of deaths in the county from the disease.
Elbert County had two deaths, of a 61-year-old male with a chronic condition and a 75-year-old female without a chronic condition.
Greene County had one death, of a 75-year-old male without a chronic condition, and Jackson County had one death, of an 87-year-old male without a chronic condition.
Oglethorpe had one death, of 78-year-old female with a chronic condition.
Walton County reported three deaths: a 75-year-old female without a chronic condition, a 78-year-old male without a chronic condition, and an 88-year old female without a known chronic condition.
The District now has 753 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 7.6 from 6.6 on Sunday.
The District also added two “probable” deaths from COVID-19–one in Clarke County and one in Jackson County. No characteristics of “probable” deaths are released by the Department of Public Health.
The Department of Public Health has reported “probable” deaths only since Nov. 3, and the Northeast Health District now has 70.
Cases, Hospital Report, Vaccinations
With the addition of the 56 cases on Monday, the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 128.6 from 141.0 on Sunday.
Oconee County added a single new COVID-19 case on Monday, and Clarke County added nine new cases.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 7.6 in Oconee County from 8.9 on Sunday. In Clarke County, the seven-day rolling average dropped to 25.9 from 29.1 on Sunday.
The Department of Community Health reported one new staff case in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Monday. That case was at Morningside of Athens personal care home in Clarke County.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (108) decreased by one from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (65) decreased by two from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (37) increased by one from the day before.
The Northeast Health District added only 117 vaccinations on Monday, down from 303 on Sunday; 28 of the added doses were first doses, and 89 of those were second doses.
The total doses of the second shot administered represent 3.4 percent of the District’s 530,630 residents.
Early Voting ELOST
Early voting got underway Monday on the Education Local Option Sales Tax referendum–the third election the county has now run during the pandemic.
Only 48 persons turned out on Monday to vote at the Civic Center, 2661 Hog Mountain Road, west of Butler’s Crossing. Early voting will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through March 12 at the Civic Center. The school referendum is the sole issue on the ballot.
No voting will take place on Saturdays or Sundays. Absentee ballot requests are being handled through the Oconee County Office Of Elections and Registration.
As of Monday, the Office of Elections and Registration had mailed out only 23 absentee ballots, according to Jennifer Stone, assistant director of the Office.
The Georgia Secretary of State Office lists 30,565 active voters in Oconee County as of Feb. 8, 2021.
State Data
The Department of Public Health Reported the addition of 56 new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 across the state on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of added confirmed deaths increased to 100.9 from 97.6 on Sunday.
Twenty-four of those added deaths were in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by day of the death decreased from Sunday.
The Department of Public Health added 35 “probable” deaths, and the seven-day rolling average of “probable” deaths increased to 30.7 from 29.1 on Sunday.
The Department of Public Health added 1,640 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 1,986.0 from 2,043.9 on Sunday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients (2,316) at the state’s hospitals decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,473) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,270) increased from the day before.
The Department of Public Health reported administration of 6,293 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday, down from 21,940 on Sunday. The number of first doses was 2,069, and the number of second doses was 4,224.
The total number of vaccinations in the state is now 1,756,979, and the total number of second doses is 602,818, which represents 5.6 percent of the state’s 10.8 million residents.
The Department of Public Health reported a new allocation of 361,500 new doses of the vaccine on Monday, and an added shipment of 122,085 doses.
As of Monday, 84.5 percent of the doses shipped to the state had been administered.
Charts
The charts below show the seven-day rolling average of the addition of COVID-19 molecular and antigen cases combined for the Northeast Health District and for the state of Georgia since Nov. 3, when the state first began reporting antigen test results.
The data in the charts come from the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report and have been updated for the 2:50 p.m. Report on Monday.
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