Oconee County Board Of Elections To Meet On Monday To Respond To Challenge Filed Against Eligibility Of County Voters

***Early Voting Takes Break Until After Christmas***

The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration is scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. on Monday to respond to a challenge from Patricia Daughertry, 5041 Price Mill Road, west of Bishop, to the eligibility of more than 100 Oconee County registered voters to participate in the Jan. 5 runoff election.

Daugherty, who is active in Conservative Republican Woman of Northeast Georgia and challenged Sen. Bill Cowsert in the Republican primary in 2016, submitted a list of voters that she said “appear” to have moved out of the county.

Rolling Averages Of Added COVID-19 Cases Increase In Oconee, Clarke, And Northeast Health District

***Area Hospital Data Mostly Stable***

Seven-day rolling averages of added COVID-19 cases increased in Oconee and Clarke counties and in the 10-county Northeast Health District as a whole on Wednesday with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

The Northeast Health District also added two deaths attributed to the disease in the Daily Status Report.

Oconee County added 44 new COVID-19 cases, and Clarke County added 95, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases in Oconee increased from 34.3 on Tuesday to 37.7 on Wednesday while the seven-day rolling average in Clarke County increased from 67.1 on Tuesday to 68.7 on Wednesday.

Oconee County Adds Third COVID-19 Death In Two Days As Northeast Health District Adds 435 COVID-19 Cases

***Area Hospitals Report Record Number of COVID-19 Patients***

Oconee County recorded its third death attributed to COVID-19 in two days with the release on Tuesday of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

The county also recorded 57 new cases of the disease, a new record.

The Oconee County death was the sole death listed in the the Daily Status Report for the 10-county Northeast Health District on Tuesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in that Report held steady at 2.0.

Northeast Health District Adds Two Deaths From COVID-19, Both In Oconee County, And 287 New COVID-19 Cases

***Oconee County Test Positivity Rate Rising Sharply***

The Northeast Health District added 287 COVID-19 cases on Monday when the Department of Public Health released its Daily Status Report and added two deaths from the disease–both in Oconee County.

The seven-day rolling average of added cases and deaths both increased with the release of the Monday Report.

The two Oconee County deaths were of a 51-year-old male without a chronic condition and of an 89-year-old male, also without a chronic condition.

Northeast Health District Adds 374 COVID-19 Cases And COVID-19 Death On Sunday; Oconee County Adds 45 Cases

***Oconee Schools Report Three New Cases***

The Northeast Health District added 374 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 361 of them confirmed via molecular tests and 13 of them the product of rapid, antigen tests, as well as one of the two deaths from the disease reported in the state.

The death was of a 79-year-old female in Barrow County without a known chronic condition. The listing followed a death in the county in Saturday’s Daily Status Report and was the 63rd in the county attributed to the disease.

Rolling Average Of Added COVID-19 Cases Up Slightly In Northeast Health District On Saturday; Three Deaths From Disease Reported

***COVID Patients At Area Hospitals Increased***

With the listing of 298 new cases of COVID-19 in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Saturday, the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District increased to 380.9, up just slightly from the 379.4 average of Friday.

The 10-county Northeast Health District also added three deaths, including one in Clarke County, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District increased to 1.7 on Saturday from 1.3 on Friday.

State Reports 488 COVID-19 Cases And Three Deaths From Disease In Northeast Health District; Oconee Schools Reports Increase In Cases

***Death At Clarke County Nursing Home***

The Northeast Health District added 488 new cases of COVID-19–383 of them the result of molecular tests and 105 identified via antigen tests–and two deaths from the disease with the release of Friday’s Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

Both of the dead were residents of Walton County. One was a 66-year-old female without a known chronic condition and the other was an 87-year-old male, also without a known chronic condition.