COVID-19 Cases declining in Rabun County

Positive cases of COVID-19 are declining in Rabun County.  According to the latest figures from the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have now been 1,424 cases of the deadly respiratory virus in Rabun County with 40 new cases reported in the last two weeks.  In addition, 36 deaths have now been attributed to COVID-19 in Rabun County. In other neighboring counties, Habersham County has had 4,533 cases and 136 deaths, White County lists 2,852 cases and 62 fatalities, and Towns County reports 983 cases and 37 deaths.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been a total of 810,473 positive cases of the virus across the state, of those, 55,394 have been hospitalized and the total death count due to complications of the virus has now risen to 14,882.