Rolling Averages COVID-19 Cases, Deaths In Northeast Health District Fall Again On Saturday

***Mass Vaccination Scheduled For April 17 At Civic Center***

The rolling averages of both COVID-19 cases and deaths from the disease dropped for the third day running in the Northeast Health District with the release of the Daily Status Report by the Department of Public Health on Saturday.

The Daily Status Report listed two deaths: a 90-plus-year-old female in Clarke County without a chronic condition and an 82-year-old female from Oglethorpe County, also without a chronic condition.

The deaths bring to 880 the number in the District since February of last year.

Rolling Averages of Added COVID-19 Cases, Confirmed Deaths, Drop For Second Day In Row In Northeast Health District

***Oconee School Cases Decline From Week Earlier***

For the second day in a row, the seven-day rolling average of added COVID-19 cases and of added confirmed deaths from the disease fell in the Northeast Health District with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

Oconee County Schools also reported a large drop in the number of Active Cases of COVID-19 in the schools.

Oconee County Commission Chair Gave Time Line, Details Of SR 316 Transformation At Town Hall Meeting

***Malcom Bridge Road And Other Road Projects Discussed***

Between 2024 and 2027, the Georgia Department of Transportation will construct full interchanges with flyovers on SR 316 at the Oconee Connector and at Jimmy Daniell Road as well as a flyover of Virgil Langford Road without on and off ramps.

These projects will be “bundled,” Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell told in-person and remote participants in a Town Hall meeting last week.

Seven-Day Rolling Averages Of COVID-19 Cases, Confirmed Deaths From Disease Decrease

***Number Of COVID-19 Patients At Area Hospitals Down***

The rolling averages of both added COVID-19 cases and added deaths from the disease dropped in the Northeast Health District on Thursday with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

The District added 61 cases and a single death–of an 88-year-old female in Elbert County without a chronic condition.

The death was the 54th in Elbert County, which has the highest death rate in the District with 285 deaths per 100,000 population.

Seven-Day Rolling Average Of Added COVID-19 Cases In Northeast Health District Increases

***Rolling Average Added Deaths Down Slightly***

The Northeast Health District added 85 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, pushing up the seven-day rolling average of added cases. The rolling average of added confirmed deaths from the disease dropped with the addition of two deaths.

One of the added confirmed deaths was in Oconee County, which also had recorded a confirmed death on Sunday.

The Oconee County death was of a 69-year-old female without a chronic condition and brings to 62 the number of deaths in the county from the disease since the first was recorded in May of last year.

Oconee Long-Term Care Home Reports Two COVID-19 Deaths, The Third At Oconee Long-Term Care Facilities In Two Days

***Rolling Average For Added COVID-19 Cases Declines***

The Northeast Health District added only 35 new COVID-19 cases and no new confirmed deaths from the disease on Tuesday with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

The Department of Community Health, however, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Tuesday, listed two new deaths at The Landing Senior Living personal care home on U.S. 78 in Oconee County.

The Department of Community Health had listed a death at High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home, 3450 New High Shoals Road in the west of the county, in Monday’s Long-Term Care Facility Report.

State Health Reports List COVID-19 Deaths In Oconee, Clarke Counties; Rolling Average Added Confirmed Deaths Up In Health District

***Rolling Average Added COVID-19 Cases Falls***

With the addition of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Clarke and Morgan counties in the Monday Department of Public Health Daily Status Report, the seven-day rolling average of added confirmed deaths in the Northeast Health District increased slightly on Monday.

In addition, the Department of Community Health, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report, listed one new resident death from COVID-19 at High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in Oconee County.

The Department of Public Health added 45 new cases of the disease in the Monday Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the District fell on Monday from Sunday.