Sixteen More Cases of COVID-19 reported in Rabun County

Sixteen more positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Rabun County.  According to the latest figures from the Georgia Department of Public Health, Rabun County has now had 1,209 positive cases of the respiratory virus.  There have been 176 cases reported in Rabun County in the last two weeks.  In addition, 25 deaths have now been attributed to complications of COVID-19 in Rabun County.   In neighboring counties, Habersham County reports 4,018 cases and 101 deaths, White County lists 2,411 cases and 42 fatalities, and Towns County has had 825 cases and 26 deaths.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been a total of 660,720 positive cases of the virus across the state, of those, 45,893 have been hospitalized and the total death count due to complications of the virus has now risen to 10,721.