Community COVID transmission rates currently remain low across Northeast Georgia. Data from District 2 Public Health shows the two-week positivity rate is well below 10% in all 13 counties the District serves.
For the two-week time period ending March 17, Habersham County’s positivity rate was 2.1% with 14 new cases identified. White County’s positivity rate was 2.5% with 16 new cases diagnosed, according to data from the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Franklin County had the district’s lowest positivity rate at 1.3% while Rabun County was the highest at 6.6%.
Vaccination rates among the counties vary, with Banks County reporting the lowest number of residents who are fully vaccinated at 32%. Forsyth, Towns, and Union counties have vaccination rates at or above 50%, with Forsyth claiming the highest full vaccination rate in the District at 59% of its population.
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District Two Public Health counties include Banks, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, and White.
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Since the pandemic began in March 2020, public health officials have confirmed over 1.9 million cases of the virus in Georgia. At least 30,775 people in the state have died with COVID and another 5,840 deaths are considered ‘probable’ COVID deaths.
District 2 COVID death tolls:
Banks: 78
Dawson: 95
Forsyth: 358
Franklin: 76
Habersham: 238
Hall: 769
Hart: 58
Lumpkin: 110
Rabun: 78
Stephens: 127
Towns: 83
Union: 134
White: 137
Nationwide, COVID has caused or contributed to the deaths of nearly 973,266 people, according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
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