Area COVID-19 Numbers leveling off

Area COVID-19 numbers are leveling off.  The Georgia Department of Public Health is now reporting 41 COVID-19-related deaths in Rabun County with 1,569 residents testing positive for the virus since the beginning of the global pandemic.  In neighboring counties, Habersham County lists 152 deaths and 4,674 cases, White County reports 67 fatalities and 3,006 cases, and Towns County has had 44 deaths and 1,122 cases.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been a total of 896,081 positive cases of the virus across the state, of those, 63,770 have been hospitalized and the total death count due to complications of the virus has now risen to 18,068.