The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 274 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Dec. 13, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 178 cases in the week ending on Dec. 6.
The Northeast Health District had added 155 cases in the week ending Nov. 29, 145 cases in the week ending Nov. 22, and 184 cases in the week ending on Nov. 15.
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 one new confirmed death from the disease in its report on Dec. 6.
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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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 Dec. 13 was 39.1, up from 25.4 last week, up from 22.1 two weeks ago, and up from 20.7 three weeks ago.
Oconee County added 16 new cases in the seven days ending on Dec. 13.
Oconee County had added eight new cases in the week ending on Dec. 6.
Clarke County added 36 new cases in the seven days ending on Dec. 13. It had 34 new cases in the seven days ending on Dec. 6.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on Dec. 13 was 2.3.
It was 1.1 on Dec. 6.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on Dec. 13 was 6.0. It was 5.1 on Dec. 6.
Deaths
The new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 were in Walton County, bringing to 440 the total number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in that county since the onset of the pandemic in February of 2020.
The Walton County death represents 455.1 deaths per 100,000 population in that county, the second highest ratio in the Northeast Health District to Elbert County’s 473.6 deaths per 100,000 population.
One death, of an 87-year-old female with a chronic condition, was removed from the list of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in Oconee County in the Dec. 13 Georgia Department of Public Health COVID report.
Oconee County most recently added a confirmed death from the disease in the report released on Nov. 29, and that was of a 47-year-old female with a chronic condition.
The removal of the death from the Oconee County list reduces to 108 the total number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the county since February of 2020, or 258.4 deaths per 100,000 population, the second lowest ratio in the Northeast Health District.
Clarke County, with 254 confirmed deaths from the disease, has the lowest rate of deaths in the 10-county Northeast Health District at 197.4 deaths per 100,000 population.
The total number of deaths in the Northeast Health District from the disease now stands at 1,786, or 336.9 deaths per 100,000 population.
The Northeast Health District reported 197 “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.
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