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White County has reached over 800 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
White County has reached over 800 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
According to the Georgia Department of Public Health report on Tuesday, Sept. 29, White County had 837 confirmed cases since the first one was reported in mid-March.
As of Sept. 28, the White County Emergency Management Agency considered 522 cases to be recoveries out of the 833 cases reported by DPH at that time. A patient is considered to have recovered 21 days after a confirmed case report is provided to the county.
DPH said Tuesday that Georgia’s seven-day moving average of new cases reported had decreased by 30.4% between Sept. 21-28. On a much smaller scale during that period, White County’s seven-day average of new cases dropped from 15.9 on Sept. 22 to 5.4 on Sept. 29.
The DPH update listed 38 new cases from Sept. 22 to Sept. 29. Counts for previous weekly periods were 111 from Sept. 15-22, 64 from Sept. 8-15, and 94 from Sept. 1-8.
For the month of September the county has had 307 cases reported to DPH through Sept. 29, compared to 218 total in August, 150 total in July and 143 from all of April 1 through June 30.
As of Sept. 29, DPH reported that there had been 19 deaths attributed to the coronavirus in White County. The ages of the deceased listed include men ages 26, 60, 65, 68, 79, 81, 84, 83, 85 and 88, and women ages 43, 71, 76, 77, 82, 88 and three over 90. All but two are listed as having chronic health conditions.
White County Schools
The White County School System weekly COVID-19 status report on Sept. 30 said there were currently two students who had reported positive for COVID-19 and 67 students quarantined for possible exposure at that time. At that time, there were four reports of staff members with a positive COVID-19 test, and four staff members quarantined for possible exposure.
The reported numbers reflect students and staff who are out on that particular day – in this case, Sept. 30 – because of either a positive test or exposure to somebody with COVID-19, Director of Student Improvement Cindy Free has previously said. However, these are not cumulative numbers.
The school system currently has 3,732 students enrolled and 557 staff members.