The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 135 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on March 22, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
That number of cases added a week earlier had been 105.
The Department of Public Health reported one new confirmed death from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday. The death was in Oconee County.
The Department of Public Health had reported three new confirmed deaths from the disease in the Northeast Health District on Wednesday of last week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rated the Transmission Rate for COVID-19 in Oconee County as Moderate and in Clarke County as Substantial, the same as a week earlier.
The Transmission Rate in Oglethorpe County was rated as High, but the Transmission Rate in each of the other nine counties in the Northeast Health District is now rated as Substantial, Moderate, or Low.
Weekly Report
Although the Department of Public Health is releasing a report only weekly, it is gathering data on a daily basis, and the weekly report includes a data file containing case counts each day, ending on a Wednesday.
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The Department of Public Health switched to weekly, rather than daily, case counts in April of last year in part because of a concern that its counts under-represent the actual number of cases.
At-home test results are not included in the electronic reporting system.
The average number of added cases per day in the last seven days ending on March 22 in the Northeast Health District was 19.3, up from 15.0 last week.
Oconee County added eight cases in the seven days ending on Wednesday. The county added four cases in the seven days ending on March 15.
Clarke County added 44 new cases in the seven days ending on March 22. It had added 40 cases in the week ending on March 15.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on March 22 was 0.9. It had been 0.3 on March 15.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on March 22 was 5.1. It had been 5.7 on March 15.
Deaths
The Oconee County confirmed death from COVID-19 reported in the week ending on March 22 was a 62-year-old woman without a chronic condition.
The death brings to 105 the number of confirmed deaths from the disease in the county since February of 2020, or 251.2 deaths per 100,000 population.
The Northeast Health District now has recorded 1,750 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 since February of 2020, or 330.1 deaths per 100,000 population.
Clarke County, with 247 COVID-19 deaths, has the lowest rate of deaths per 100,000 population in the Northeast Health District (192.0), followed by Oconee County.
The Northeast Health District reported 195 “probable” deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, the same as last week.
The Georgia Department of Public Health’s 10-county Northeast Health District includes Oconee and Clarke counties. The other counties are Barrow, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oglethorpe, and Walton.
Additional Data
The Georgia Department of Public Health is no longer reporting data on COVID-19 hospitalizations at area hospitals, and the data available from the U.S. Health and Human Services are two weeks old when released.
The Centers for Disease Control and prevention reports the Transmission Rate of COVID-19 in Oconee County as Moderate and Clarke County as Substantial, based on total number of new cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days and the percentage of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests that are positive during the last seven days, ending on Thursday.
Oconee County had been rated as Moderate and Clarke as Substantial in terms of Rate of Transmission last week.
Greene, Morgan, Walton, Barrow, Jackson, and Madison counties also were rated as Moderate, and Elbert County was rated as Low.
Oglethorpe County was rated as High.
The CDC scale is High, Substantial, Moderate, or Low.
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