North Carolina COVID-19 test percent positivity continues to stay under 2%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
COVID-19
and last updated 2021-06-11 18:30:58-04
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released their daily update involving COVID-19 cases within the state.
As of Friday, there are now 858,110 PCR positive cases and 149,588 antigen positive cases, 535 people hospitalized and 13,625 COVID-19-related deaths.
That is 425 new total cases and 19 additional deaths from Thursday s data.
A total of 13,480,304 total COVID-19 tests have been completed in North Carolina.
Here s the breakdown of confirmed cases in local areas:
6/11/2021
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As the country watches the COVID death toll cross the half million mark, a Western North Carolina official has been taking inventory of the local impact. As BPR’s Helen Chickering reports, he ended up with a snapshot for the entire state.
“We were trying to close out our 2020 numbers and we came across this statistic that was pretty jaw-dropping,” says Buncombe County Register of Deeds, Drew Reisinger. “For the first time in recorded history in Buncombe County, we had more deaths than births.”
Reisinger says in 2020 Buncombe County recorded 4,098 deaths and 4,050 births. “So, it took a pretty substantial event to create that.”