The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 17 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on June 7, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
None of those cases was in Oconee County.
This is the first time that the Department of Public Health has not reported a COVID-19 case in Oconee County since the Department began releasing weekly rather than daily reports in April of 2022.
The number of cases added a week earlier in the Northeast Health District had been 22. The number of cases added has fallen four 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 two new confirmed deaths on May 31 as well.
One of those confirmed deaths was in Oconee County, the first confirmed death from the disease in the county since the report of April 5.
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 June 7 in the Northeast Health District was 2.4, down from 3.1 last week, from 6.0 on May 24, from 9.3 on May 17, and from 12.0 on May 10.
Oconee County added no new case in the seven days ending on Wednesday. The county had added six new cases in the seven days ending on May 31 and the same number the week before that.
Clarke County also added 11 new cases in the seven days ending on June 7. It had added 10 cases in the week ending on May 31.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on June 7 was 0.1. It had been was 0.7 on May 31.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on June 7 was 1.4. It had been 1.9 on May 31.
Deaths
The confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in the June 7 report were in Oconee and Jackson counties.
The Oconee County death was of an 86-year-old male without a chronic condition.
The death brings to 107 the number confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Oconee County since the onset of the pandemic in February of 2020, or 256.0 deaths per 100,000 population.
The Northeast Health District now has recorded 1,766 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 since February of 2020, or 333.1 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 256.0 confirmed deaths per 100,000 population.
Jackson County now has 298 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, or 392.6 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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