The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 65 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on May 17, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier had been 84. The number of cases has been up and down slightly in recent weeks.
The Department of Public Health reported two new confirmed death from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.
One of those deaths was in Clarke County.
The Department of Public Health had reported one new confirmed death from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District on Wednesday of last week.
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 May 17 in the Northeast Health District was 9.3, down from12.0 last week.
Oconee County added nine new case in the seven days ending on Wednesday. The county had added five new cases in the seven days ending on May 10.
Clarke County also added nine new cases in the seven days ending on May 17. It had added 22 cases in the week ending on May 10.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on May 17 was 1.3. It had been was 0.6 on May 10.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on May 17 was 1.7. It had been 2.7 on May 10.
Deaths
The confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in the May 17 report were in Clarke and Walton counties.
The Clarke County death was of a 67-year-old male without a chronic condition.
The death brings to 252 the total number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in Clarke County since the onset of the pandemic in February of 2020, or 195.8 deaths per 100,000 population.
The Northeast Health District now has recorded 1,761 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 since February of 2020, or 332.2 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, with 253.6 confirmed deaths per 100,000 population.
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.
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