Area COVID-19 Numbers stabilizing

COVID-19 numbers in northeast Georgia are beginning to stabilize.  The Georgia Department of Public Health is now reporting 40 COVID-19-related deaths in Rabun County with 1,560 residents testing positive for the virus since the beginning of the global pandemic.  In neighboring counties, Habersham County lists 153 deaths and 4,665 cases, White County reports 67 fatalities and 2,993 cases, and Towns County has had 44 deaths and 1,114 cases.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been a total of 891,073 positive cases of the virus across the state, of those, 62,786 have been hospitalized and the total death count due to complications of the virus has now risen to 17,825.