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New daily COVID-19 cases under 1,000 in North Carolina for first time in over 5 months Ben Sessoms, The News & Observer © Casey Toth/The Raleigh News & Observer/TNS Registered nurse Diann Dennis shows components of a free drive-thru COVID-19 testing kit on June 1, 2020, in Raleigh, N.C.. RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina reported 997 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the fewest reported in a day and the first time the number has been under 1,000 since Sept. 29. Popular Searches Over the last week, the state Department of Health and Human Services has reported an average of 1,78...

North Carolina adds more than 10,000 COVID-19 cases to shatter one-day record Ben Sessoms, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) © Casey Toth/The Raleigh News & Observer/TNS Registered Nurse Diann Dennis shows components of a drive-through COVID-19 testing kit on June 1, 2020, in Raleigh, North Carolina. RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina reported nearly 10,400 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, by far the highest daily increase of the pandemic as the virus continues to surge across the state. The previous high was 9,527 on New Year's Day, according to data from the state Dep...

North Carolina reports 10,000 new COVID-19 cases for second straight day as daily deaths pass 100 again Ben Sessoms and Josh Shaffer, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) © Casey Toth/The Raleigh News & Observer/TNS Registered nurse Diann Dennis shows components of a free drive-thru COVID-19 testing kit that available for at-risk Wake County residents, on Monday, June 1, 2020, in Raleigh, North Carolina. RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina reported 10,028 new COVID-19 cases and 115 deaths, marking the second consecutive day that cases and deaths have surpassed 10,000 and 1...

To the Editor: As a faculty member at the University of Florida (my office is in the building pictured in the article), I was happy to see coverage of this topic. Yes, administrators base the success of their back-to-school initiative on testing, tracing, masking, distancing and student obedience. Unfortunately, as we have learned this fall, all too often this is not happening. Here at the University of Florida, Covid cases have boomed (over 5,500 positive tests since March), testing has been optional, social distancing doesn’t always happen, tracing is imperfect and hundreds of students c...