The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 485 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Feb. 7, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 544 cases in the week ending Jan. 31, 406 cases in the week ending Jan. 24, 481 cases in the week ending on Jan. 17, 403 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Jan. 10, and 278 cases in the week ending on Jan. 3.
The Department of Public Health reported five new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.
One of those was in Oconee County, the 109th recorded in the county since the onset of COVID in February of 2020.
The Department of Public Health had reported one new confirmed death from the disease in its report on Jan. 31.
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 Feb. 7 was 69.3, down from 77.7 Jan. 31.
Oconee County added 35 new cases in the seven days ending on Feb. 7.
Oconee County had added 36 new cases in the week ending on Jan. 31.
Clarke County added 79 new cases in the seven days ending on Feb. 7. It had added 114 new cases in the seven days ending on Jan. 31.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on Feb. 7 was 5.1. It had been 5.0 on Jan. 31.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on Feb. 7 was 11.7, down from 16.9 on Jan. 31.
Deaths
The Oconee County Confirmed Death from COVID-19 was of an 88-year-old female without a chronic condition.
Oconee County last added a newly recorded death from COVID-19 on Nov. 29, but two weeks later, on Dec. 13, the Department of Public Health removed a confirmed death previously recorded in the county, most likely moving the death to another county.
The 109 deaths in the county represents 260.8 deaths per 100,000 population.
In the Northeast Health District as a whole, 1,802 deaths have been recorded since February of 2020, or 339.3 deaths per 100,000 population.
Clarke County, with 255 reported deaths from COVID-19 since February of 2020, has the lowest rate per population, or 198.2 deaths per 100,000 population.
Oconee County has the second lowest rate per 100,000 population in the Northeast Health District.
The other deaths in the Feb. 7 report of the Department of Public health were in Elbert County, Madison County, and Walton County. Walton County reported two deaths.
Elbert County has the highest death rate from the disease in the Northeast Health District, with 479.6 deaths per 100,000, but it is followed Walton County with 458.2 deaths per 100,000.
Elbert County has 94 recorded confirmed deaths and Walton County has 443, the largest number of any county in the district.
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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