With the addition of only 38 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sunday’s Daily Status Report--the smallest number since Nov. 16--the seven-day rolling average of added cases continued to decline in the Northeast Health District.
The District added no confirmed deaths from the disease, which had been the case on Sunday of last week as well, and the seven-day rolling average of 2.0 deaths per day remained unchanged. Sundays are light reporting from labs and medical facilities to the Department of Public Health.
The Department of Public Health removed three COVID-19 cases based on antigen tests in the Sunday Report, reducing the net number of total new cases based on molecular and antigen tests to 35, and the seven-day rolling average of added total cases dropped to 93.1 from 103.7 on Saturday.
With the addition of the 38 cases confirmed by a molecular test, the seven-day rolling average of added cases based on that test alone dropped to 64.4 on Sunday from 66.4 on Saturday.
That rolling average has not been at that level since July 2. The Department of Public Health began reporting antigen tests results in the Daily Status Report only on Nov. 3.
Oconee County added only two COVID-19 cases on Sunday based on the two tests, and Clarke County added only six.
The seven day rolling average of added cases in Oconee County declined to 7.6 from 9.7, while the rolling average in Clarke County declined to 17.9 from 18.7.
The Department of Community Health does not release a Long-Term Care Facility Report on the weekends.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (60) increased by five from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (59) increased by one from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (34) was unchanged from the day before.
The Northeast Health District added 2,127 new vaccinations on Sunday, down from 2,725 on Saturday.
It is not possible know how many persons in the District now are vaccinated given the data being released by the Department of Public Health.
Enough second doses of the vaccines have been administered to inoculate 6.7 percent of the total population, including children. At present, children are not being vaccinated.
The Johnson and Johnson vaccine, available in the state only in limited amounts, does not require a second shot.
State Data
The Daily Status Report did not add any confirmed COVID-19 deaths across the state on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped to 41.3 from 41.6 on Saturday. The Department of Public Health had reported two confirmed deaths last Sunday.
The last time the Department of Public Health reported no deaths was on Nov. 30, and the last time before that was on March 18, in the beginning days of the pandemic. The first death in the state was on March 12 of last year.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by occurrence was unchanged on Sunday.
The Department of Public Health did eliminate one death previously listed as due to COVID-19. That death occurred on Dec. 19.
The Department of Public Health added no “probable” deaths from COVID-19 in Sunday’s Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable” deaths remained unchanged at 5.1, as no “probable” deaths had been added last Sunday.
Across the state, the Department of Public Health added 884 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases decreased to 1,597.7 from 1,728.1 on Saturday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,392) at the state’s hospitals increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,276) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,073) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Public Health reported administration of 32,224 new doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, down from 72,907 doses of the vaccine on Saturday.
The Department of Public Health did not report any new allocations or shipments of doses of COVID-19 vaccinations on Sunday.
As of Sunday, 99.0 percent of the allocated doses had been shipped, and 81.5 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 Sunday.
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