The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 58 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on April 5, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
That number of cases added a week earlier had been 78.
The Department of Public Health reported two new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.
One of those was in Oconee County, and the other was in Clarke County.
The Department of Public Health had reported no 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 Low, down from Moderate a week earlier, and in Clarke County as Substantial, the same as a week earlier.
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 April 5 in the Northeast Health District was 8.3, down from 11.1 last week.
Oconee County added only two cases in the seven days ending on Wednesday. The county added five cases in the seven days ending on March 29.
Clarke County added 26 new cases in the seven days ending on April 5. It had added 25 cases in the week ending on March 29.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on April 5 was 0.6. It had been 0.1 on March 29.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on April 5 was 3.1. It had been 4.1 on March 29.
Deaths
The Oconee County confirmed death from COVID-19 was of a 63-year-old male without a chronic condition.
The death brings to 106 the number in the county since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in February of 2020, or 253.6 deaths from the disease per 100,000 population.
The Clarke County confirmed death from COVID-19 was of a 90-plus-year old female without a chronic condition.
He death brings to 248 the number in the county from the disease since the onset of the pandemic in February of 2020, or 192.7 deaths per 100,000 population.
The Northeast Health District now has recorded 1,752 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 since February of 2020, or 330.5 deaths per 100,000 population.
Clarke County has the lowest rate of deaths per 100,000 population among the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District, 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, in addition to Oconee and Clarke counties, 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 Low 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.
Morgan, Walton, and Oglethorpe counties also were rated as Low.
Madison and Barrow were rated as Moderate,.
Greene and Jackson joined Clarke with a Substantial rating, and Elbert County was rated as High.
The CDC scale is High, Substantial, Moderate, or Low.
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