The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 22 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on May 31, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier had been 42. The number of cases added has fallen three weeks in a row.
The Department of Public Health reported two new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.
The Department of Public Health had reported only 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 31 in the Northeast Health District was 3.1, down from 6.0 last week, from 9.3 on May 17, and from12.0 on May 10.
Oconee County added six new case in the seven days ending on Wednesday. The county also had added six new cases in the seven days ending on May 24.
Clarke County also added 10 new cases in the seven days ending on May 31. It had added six cases in the week ending on May 24.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on May 31 was 0.9. It had been was 0.6 on May 24.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on May 31 was 1.9. It had been 2.0 on May 24.
Deaths
The confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in the May 31 report were in Elbert and Jackson counties, bringing to 93 the number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic in February of 2020 in Elbert County and 297 in Jackson County.
That is 473.6 deaths per 100,000 population in Elbert County and 391.3 in Jackson County.
The Northeast Health District now has recorded 1,764 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 since February of 2020, or 332.8 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 with 195.8, followed by Oconee County, with 253.6 confirmed deaths per 100,000 population.
Elbert County’s death rate per 100,000 population is the highest in the Northeast Health District.
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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