COVID Case Count In Northeast Health District Shows Small Increase For Third Week Running

***No Deaths From Disease Reported In District***

The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 74 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on June 28, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.

The number of cases added a week earlier in the Northeast Health District had been 42. The number of cases has increased in each of the last three 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 has not reported any new deaths from the disease in the Northeast Health District since June 7.

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 28 in the Northeast Health District was 10.6, up from 6.0 on June 21.

Oconee County added seven new case in the seven days ending on Wednesday.

Oconee County had added eight new cases in the week ending on June 21.

Clarke County added 14 new cases in the seven days ending on June 28. It had added 13 cases in the week ending on June 21.

The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on June 28 was 0.6. It had been 1.0 on June 21.

The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on June 28 was 2.4. It had been 2.0 on June 21.

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, the same as a week earlier.

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.