The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 374 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Feb. 21, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 509 cases in the week ending on Feb. 14, 485 cases in the week ending on Feb. 7, and 544 cases in the week ending Jan. 31.
The Department of Public Health reported one new confirmed death from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.
The confirmed deaths was in Clarke County, which also reported a confirmed death from the disease a week ago.
The Department of Public Health had reported two new confirmed deaths from the disease in its report on Feb. 14.
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. 21 was 53.4, down from was 72.7 on Feb. 14.
Oconee County added 15 new cases in the seven days ending on Feb. 21.
Oconee County had added 35 new cases in the week ending on Feb. 14.
Clarke County added 75 new cases in the seven days ending on Feb. 14. It had added 91 new cases in the seven days ending on Feb. 14.
The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on Feb. 21 was 2.6. It was 5.4 on Feb. 14.
The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on Feb. 21 was 10.7. down from down from 13.7 on Feb. 14.
Deaths
The Clarke County confirmed death from COVID-19 was of an 80-year-old male without a chronic condition.
The death brings to 257 the number of confirmed deaths in the county from COVID-19 since the onset of the disease in February of 2020.
The Clarke County death represents 199.7 deaths per 100,000 population in the county.
The Northeast Health District as a whole now has reported 1,805 deaths since February of 2020, or 340.5 deaths per 100,000 population.
Clarke County has the lowest rate of deaths per 100,000 population in the 10-county Northeast Health District, followed by Oconee County, which has 109 deaths from the disease, or 260.8 per 100,000 population.
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 by 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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