ROCKINGHAM — For the third day this week, the Richmond County Health Department has reported more than a dozen new cases of COVID-19.
The Health Department’s daily updates indicated 13 new cases on both Wednesday and Thursday. Fifteen cases were reported on Monday and only four new cases were announced on Tuesday.
The 45 new cases in the past four days brings the county’s total up to 665, with 538 listed as recovered.
Earlier on Thursday, the Health Department announced the county’s 10th death attributed to the coronavirus.
As of Thursday afternoon, there were 117 active cases, with six hospitalized and the remaining 111 under home isolation.
The number of hospitalizations has dropped from 13 on Aug. 24. There were 12 residents in the hospital the previous day. Both days set a record high for Richmond County hospitalizations.
There are 958 hospitalized across the state, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
The number of positive tests remains just below 10%, as 6,941 of those tested have received a negative result.
FirstHealth of the Carolinas has completed 26,112 tests, according to the healthcare system’s website. Of those, 3,004 have been positive and 22,489 have been negative. There are still 345 results pending. Some of the total tests have been retests.
The system currently has 31 COVID-positive patients, making up 8.6% of its total census.
Of the 2,152,725 tests completed statewide, 161,076 have been lab-confirmed as positive, according to DHHS statistics.
On Thursday there were 2,091 new cases across the state, the highest since July 30 (2,344). New per diem cases peaked with 2,481 on July 18. Despite a few spikes in the past five weeks, cases seem to be on a downward trend.
BY THE NUMBERS
The number of local cases per age group are as follows:
The age group with the largest increase in new cases so far this week (from Monday to Thursday) is the 19-30-year-old bracket, with eight new cases. There have been five new cases for each of the older three groups and three new cases for the 0-18 and 31-40 age groups.
The number of cases per ZIP code are as follows:
DHHS reports that more than 40 of the state’s 100 counties that have now experienced more than 1,000 total cases: Alamance, Brunswick, Burke, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Franklin, Chatham, Cleveland, Columbus, Cumberland, Davidson, Duplin, Durham, Forsyth, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Harnett, Henderson, Iredell, Johnston, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Moore, Nash, New Hanover, Onlsow, Orange, Pitt, Randolph, Rowan, Robeson, Sampson, Stanly, Surry, Union, Wake, Wayne, Wilkes and Wilson.
Rutherford County has had 914 cases and Craven, Halifax, Hoke, Montgomery and Vance counties have had more than 900 cases.
Graham County remains as having the state’s fewest number of cases with 51, followed by Madison with 58. Gates and Hyde counties, near the northeast coast, have 76 and 89, respectively. Camden, Clay, Currituck, Mitchell, Pamlico, and Yancey are the only other counties with fewer than 100 cases.
The total numbers (including recoveries) for surrounding counties are as follows:
All numbers are from DHHS except Moore, which are from the local health department, as there has been a discrepancy with the state.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is reporting 896 cases in Chesterfield County and 651 in Marlboro County.
Eleven counties in South Carolina have had more than 3,000 total cases, including Horry, Charleston and Richland.
