The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 42 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on June 21, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier in the Northeast Health District had been 39. The number of cases has increased just slightly in both of the last two weeks.
The Department of Public Health reported no new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.
The Department of Public Health also had reported no new confirmed deaths on June 14.
The Department of Public Health did report one “probable” death from COVID-19 on Wednesday. That case was in Clarke County.
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 21 in the Northeast Health District was 6.0, up from 5.6 on June 14.
Oconee County added eight new case in the seven days ending on Wednesday.
Oconee County had added seven new cases in the week ending on June 14.
Clarke County also added 13 new cases in the seven days ending on June 21. It had added 23 cases in the week ending on June 14.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on June 21 was 1.0. It had been 0.4 on June 14.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on June 21 was 2.0. It had been 2.7 on June 14.
Deaths
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.
The Northeast Health District reported 196 “probable” deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, up from 195 a week earlier.
With the addition of the new “probable” death, Clarke County now has 19 such deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
The Department of Public Health provides no details on the characteristic of the “probable” deaths.
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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