View Comments Each day, The Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald-Journal and Anderson Independent Mail publish a live-updates-style story with the latest COVID-19 news relevant to our communities in the Upstate. This is our COVID-19 news roundup for May 9, 2021. DHEC announces 378 new confirmed cases for Sunday The state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported 378 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 8 new deaths statewide on Sunday. The agency also reported 203 probable new cases. Of the 14,965 COVID-19 test results reported by DHEC on Sunday, 5.7% were positive. Greenville County had 95 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. The most populated of the state's 46 counties, Greenville accounts for 7.7% of the state's population according to Census Bureau estimates, and it accounted for 25% of the confirmed cases reported Sunday.