The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 155 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Nov. 29, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 145 cases in the week ending Nov. 22.
The Northeast Health District had added 184 cases in the week ending on Nov. 15, 140 cases in the week ending on Nov. 8, 141 cases in the week ending on Nov. 1, and 146 cases in the week ending on Oct. 25.
The Department of Public Health reported two new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.
One of those was in Oconee County, and the other was in Walton County.
The Department of Public Health had reported no new confirmed deaths from the disease in its report on Nov. 22.
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 Nov. 29 was 22.1, up slightly from 20.7 last week.
Oconee County added 11 new cases in the seven days ending on Nov. 29.
Oconee County had added 15 new cases in the week ending on Nov. 22.
Clarke County added 18 new cases in the seven days ending on Nov. 29. It had 11 new cases in the seven days ending on Nov. 22.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on Nov. 29 was 1.6.
It also was 1.6 on Nov. 22.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on Nov. 29 was 3.1. It had been 2.6 on Nov. 22.
Deaths
The Oconee County death, the first in the county since the report on July 5, was of a 47-year-old female with a chronic condition.
Of the 109 confirmed deaths in the county from COVID-19 since February of 2020, only three were of persons younger than 47.
The death represents 260.8 deaths per 100,000 population in Oconee County.
The Walton County death brings the toll in that county to 437 and represents 452.0 deaths per 100,000 population in that county.
The total number of deaths in the Northeast Health District from the disease now stands at 1,784, or 336.5 deaths per 100,000 population.
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.
Oconee County has the second lowest rate of 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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