The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control released its daily COVID-19 update on new cases, new deaths and information on the COVID-19 vaccine in the state.• From Dec. 14 through Dec. 16, South Carolina received its first allocation of COVID-19 vaccine: a total of 42,900 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were received by direct shipments from the federal government. As of early Tuesday afternoon,