COVID-19 Spread slowing in Rabun County

The spread of COVID-19 continues to slow in Rabun and surrounding counties.  In the last two weeks, the Georgia Department of Public Health reports a total of 14 new cases in Rabun County.  There have been 76 COVID-related deaths in Rabun County with 2,790 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of the global pandemic. For surrounding counties, Habersham County has had 23 new cases in the last two weeks, White County has had 36, and Towns County has had 30 new cases.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been a total of 1,917,130 positive cases of the virus across the state of Georgia, of those 108,670 have been hospitalized and the total death count due to complications of the virus has now risen to 30,252.