The Georgia Department of Public Health says that Northwest Georgia is seeing an uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases.  Dr. Gary Vocio with the Northwest Georgia Department of Public Health said that they are monitoring the increase in the number of cases, but aren’t saying that it is a “trend” at this time.  There were 17 new COVID-19 cases reported in Chattooga County since the last reporting period two weeks ago, according to numbers released on Wednesday of this week.