The Northeast Health District added only 69 COVID-19 cases and one death from the disease on Saturday, and the seven-day rolling average of both continued to decline.
The Department of Public Health Daily Status Report listed the death of an 82-year-old male in Walton County with a chronic condition as the sole confirmed death, bringing to 216 the number of COVID-19 deaths in Walton County and to 820 in the District.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths fell to 2.0 and now has declined three days in a row.
Walton County has the most death from the virus in the 10-county Northeast Health District, but it ranks behind Elbert and Greene counties, in that order, in deaths per 100,000 population.
Both Oconee and Clarke counties have below average death rates in the District, and Oconee is below average in confirmed cases (via molecular testing) per 100,000 population, while the Clarke case rate exceeds that of the District as a whole.
The District’s 69 cases (65 based on molecular testing and 4 from antigen testing) resulted in a drop in the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 103.7 from 110.4 on Friday. The rate has now dropped six days in a row.
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Oconee and Clarke counties went against the District trend on Saturday, with Oconee County adding 14 cases and Clarke County adding 11.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases in Oconee County increased to 9.7 from 9.3 on Friday, while in Clarke County the rolling average increased to 18.7 from 17.9 on Friday.
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 Saturday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (55) increased by two from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (58) was the same as the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (34) also was unchanged from the day before.
The Northeast Health District added 2,725 new vaccinations for COVID-19 on Saturday, down from 4,132 on Friday.
It is not possible to know how many persons in the District or state now are vaccinated given the data being released by the Department of Public Health.
State Data
The Daily Status Report added 41 confirmed COVID-19 deaths across the state on Saturday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped to 41.6 from 46.1 on Friday.
Seventeen of the confirmed deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by occurrence decreased on Saturday from Friday.
The Department of Public Health added 11 “probable” deaths from COVID-19 in Saturday’s Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable” deaths dropped to 5.1 from 6.3 on Friday.
Across the state, the Department of Public Health added 1,378 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases decreased to 1,728.1 from 1,897.3 on Friday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Saturday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,388) at the state’s hospitals decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,351) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,103) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Public Health reported administration of 72,907 doses of the vaccine on Saturday, down from 75,085 doses on Friday.
The Department of Public Health did not report any new allocations or shipments of doses of COVID-19 vaccinations on Saturday.
As of Friday, 99.0 percent of the allocated doses had been shipped, and 80.6 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 Saturday.
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