Update on COVID-19 Cases

Positive cases of COVID-19 continue to climb in Rabun County.  According to the latest figures from the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have now been 1,387 cases of the deadly respiratory virus in Rabun County with 70 new cases reported in the last two weeks.  There have also been 34 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Rabun County since the beginning of the global pandemic last March.  In other neighboring counties, Habersham County has had 4,443 cases and 124 deaths, White County lists 2,758 cases and 55 fatalities, and Towns County reports 933 cases and 33 deaths.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been a total of 778,049 positive cases of the virus across the state of Georgia, of those, 52,262 have been hospitalized and the total death count due to complications of the virus has now risen to 13,481.