COVID death toll in Oconee reaches 73

By 11:59pm Friday, the running count of Oconee County deaths due to the COVID-19 virus had reached 73.  Early in the counting, Oconee’s neighbor to the west, the smaller county of Stephens County, Georgia, was running a higher death count than Oconee.  That, however, has changed, as the latest shows 50 Stephens County deaths.