Local COVID-19 Infection Rates Increase

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published November 13, 2020 at 3:55 PM EST

Athens-Clarke County’s case rate for new COVID-19 infections increased over the past week, up to 257 per 100 thousand population from 222, and 200 the week before.

The infection rate is still lower than a peak in September.

Jackson County continues to have the highest COVID-19 infection rate among Athens area counties at 373 per 100 thousand, Madison is at 282, Barrow at 194, Oglethorpe at 184, and Oconee the lowest at 134.

UGA also reported 87 positive COVID-19 tests for the week ending November 8th. UGA’s case rate remains far below its September peak of more than 1,400.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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