20 Death attributed to COVID-19 in Rabun County

Twenty deaths have now been attributed to complications of COVID-19 in Rabun County.  According to the latest figures from the Georgia Department of Public Health, Rabun County now has 1,115 positive cases of the respiratory virus.  There have been 165 cases reported in Rabun County in the last two weeks.  In neighboring counties, Habersham County reports 3,758 cases and 93 deaths, White County lists 2,201 cases and 37 fatalities, and Towns County has had 770 cases and 26 deaths.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been a total of 609,868 positive cases of the virus across the state, of those, 43,796 have been hospitalized and the total death count due to complications of the virus has now risen to 10,100.